Description
| Product ID: | 9780571210091 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Sweeney Astray |
| Authors: | Author: Seamus Heaney |
| Page Count: | 96 |
| Subjects: | Poetry by individual poets, Poetry by individual poets |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating "Sweeney Astray" is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work "Buile Suibhne". Its hero, Mad Sweeney, undergoes a series of purgatorial adventures after he is cursed by a saint and turned into a demented flying creature at the Battle of Moira. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney''s version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne - the first complete translation since 1913. 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. The poetry spoken by the mad king, exiled to the trees and the slopes, is among the richest and most immediately appealing in the whole canon of Gaelic literature. |
| Imprint Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Publisher Name: | Faber & Faber |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2001-08-06 |
