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Sweeney Astray

A Version from the Irish

Author: Seamus Heaney

Sweeney Astray

Sweeney Astray

$15.00

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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...

Page Count
96
On Sale
04/01/1985

Book Details

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.

Imprint Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

ISBN

9780374518943

In The News

"...[B]ut what one remembers most about ''Sweeney Astray'' is the delicate, dramatic balance between pain and praise. The poem is a balanced statement about a tragically unbalanced mind." - The New York Times Book Review

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Sweeney Astray

Sweeney Astray

$15.00