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Sweeney Astray
A Version from the Irish
Author: Seamus Heaney
Sweeney Astray
$11.99
About This Book
Page Count
96
On Sale
01/13/2014
Book Details
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its hero, 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
9781466855809
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