Sweeney Astray — Seamus Heaney

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Paperback editions:

Hardcover editions:

  • Hardcover
  • May-1984
  • Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • ISBN: 0374272212
  • ISBN13: 9780374272210

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  • eBook (Kindle)
  • Jan-2014
  • Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Description
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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