But Greenlaw takes a different approach. “Both Armitage and Heaney have an unusually powerful link with epic matter, but it's not one that I share. My interest is in focus,” she says. “I didn’t want to do a line-by-line translation. I wanted the sense that this was all happening inch by inch. We think love is about large gestures and big decisions, but this love seems to be so tiny, so granular in its texture.” Even the “evidence” of Criseyde’s infidelity at the end is minuscule: her brooch is found in the garments of a dead Greek soldier.