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Sweeney Astray - The Poetry Shop

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Sweeney Astray

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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 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.

Book Details

Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:
9780374518943
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
96
Authors:
Seamus Heaney
Published Date:
1985-04-01
Language:
English

About Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) was born on a farm in County Derry, Northern Ireland, and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His debut collection, Death of a Naturalist (Faber and Faber, 1966), was followed by Field Work (Faber and Faber, 1979) and Station Island (Faber and Faber, 1984). His translation of Beowulf (Faber and Faber, 1999) won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. He taught at Harvard University and served as Oxford Professor of Poetry from 1989 to 1994.

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