Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish by Seamus Heaney

Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish Seamus Heaney ebook
Page: 96
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9781466855809
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Irish cycle Sweeney Astray, about the Ulster king who went mad and was turned into a bird, as well as Heaney's own “Sweeney Redivivus” cycle from Station Island. It tells the story of an early seventh century Irish king driven mad by the curse of a priest after the battle of Mag Rath (Moira), who wanders for years in the wilderness, lamenting his fate and composing poems in celebration of nature. Apr 26, 2009 - Sweeney Astray: A Version From the Irish Seamus Heaney. A respected Canisius College academic, was a huge Heaney fan. Feb 1, 2013 - Seamus Heaney's first foray into translation, Sweeney Astray, published thirty years ago, was a version of Buile Shuibhne, which survives in seventeenth century manuscripts but probably written five hundred years earlier. Apr 20, 2012 - Sweeney's Flight: Based on the Revised Text of Sweeney Astray Overview. The Haw Lantern, Farrar, Straus, 1987. Condition, Good: Some creasing at spine. Jan 12, 2013 - (Adapter) Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish, Farrar, Straus, 1984. Publisher, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Apr 13, 2012 - Seamus Heaney translated the entire poem as Sweeney Astray (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1984, c1983), which is unavailable to me. New and Selected Poems 1966-1987, Farrar, Straus, 1990. Without him, Heaney might never have found his Sweeney Astray, or Brian Bourke the bare forked creature of his 'Sweeney' prints. Station Island, Farrar, Straus, 1984. He once accompanied a November 25, 1984 Buffalo News review of Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish with a caricature of the esteemed Irish poet. Jul 8, 2011 - Translators usually left names like these in their original form; they were sacred to a certain kind of nationalism, and Brian O'Nolan, in passing, was sending up its adherents who insisted on the Irish version of their own and others' names.