Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish

An interpretation of the epic Irish poem from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. 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.

© 2014 Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Libro electrónico): 9781466855809

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Libro electrónico: 13 de enero de 2014