Description
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a bird at the Battle of Moira. Heaney's translation not only restores to us a work of historical and literary importance but offers the genius of one of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.
Author: Seamus Heaney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/01/1985
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.22h x 5.86w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9780374518943
ISBN10: 0374518947
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground, Electric Light, Beowulf, The Spirit Level, District and Circle, and Finders Keepers. Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the most important Irish poet since Yeats.
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