Criseyde

/ krɪˈseɪdə /

noun

1. a variant of Cressida

Example Sentences

She brings me books from the convent library: a history of the wars in France, and a volume of the English poet Chaucer, containing The Legend of Good Women and The Tale of Troilus and Criseyde, translated into French.

From Literature

For another, it likes Gander’s response when asked if the poem’s opening lines were an allusion to the traditional invocation of the muse found in Homer, Virgil, Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, the prologue of Henry V and the opening of Paradise Lost: “No. Er, yes.”

From The Guardian

What Chaucer succeeds in doing in “Troilus and Criseyde”—reminding us of the existence of his poetic ancestors and at the same time leaving us enthralled by the freshness of his verse tale— cannot be done by just anyone.

From Salon

Perhaps he should dedicate it to his new young leader – just as our own classics scholar, Vic Marks, did to his captain, Leicestershire's then goldilocks, with his book on the 1984‑85 tour: nicely from Chaucer's Troilus & Criseyde: "O moral Gower, this booke I direkte to thee."

From The Guardian

How about this from Troilus and Criseyde: "Her slender arms, her soft and supple back, / Her tapered sides – all fleshy smooth and white – / He stroked, and asked for favours at her neck, / Her snowish throat, her breasts so round and light; / Thus in this heaven he took his delight, / And smothered her with kisses upon kisses / Till gradually he came to learn where bliss is."

From The Guardian