Sweeney Astray

A Version from the Irish

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, British & Irish
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Author: Seamus Heaney ISBN: 9781466855809
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication: January 13, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Language: English
Author: Seamus Heaney
ISBN: 9781466855809
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication: January 13, 2014
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English

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.

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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.

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