Sweeney astray : a version from the Irish / by Seamus Heaney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Irish

Subjects (All):

Suibhne Geilt--Poetry.

Suibhne Geilt.

Adaptations.

Tales.

Northern Ireland.

Tales--Northern Ireland--Adaptations.

Magh Rath, Battle of, Ireland, 637--Poetry.

Magh Rath, Battle of, Ireland, 637.

Ireland--History--To 1172--Legends--Poetry.

Ireland.

History.

Legends.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

85 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Manufacture:

1995.

Place of Publication:

New York : Noonday Press, 1984.

Notes:

Reprint. Originally published: Derry [Ireland] : Field Day, 1983.

"Winner of the Nobel Prize in literature"--Cover.

"This version of Buile Suibhne is based on J.G. O'Keeffe's bilingual edition, which was published by the Irish Texts Society in 1913"--Introduction.

"[This] 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 exiled to the trees at the Battle of Moira. The poetry spoken by this mad king is among the richest and most immediately appealing in the whole canon of Gaelic literature. It is animated by love of place and exposure to elemental nature; these pristine images undoubtedly first drew Heaney to the original, along with Sweeney's attraction as a model of the poetic imagination itself--displaced, hurt, voluble, resourceful"--P. [4] of cover.

ISBN:

0374518947

9780374518943

OCLC:

428010045