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Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish is a version of the Irish poem Buile Shuibhne written by Seamus Heaney, based on an earlier translation by J.G. O'Keeffe.
- Seamus Heaney
- 1983
Summary. From ‘Buile Suibhne’ to ‘Sweeney Astray’. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's translation of the medieval Irish text Buile Suibhne, ‘The Madness of Suibhne,’ a tale in verse and prose that describes how Suibhne (Sweeney), an Ulster king, clashes with a local cleric, Rónán, and having been cursed by the cleric, goes mad ...
Sweeney Astray is a modern version of Buile Suibhne, a medieval Irish tale about a mad king who wanders in the wilderness. The poem combines the ancient and the modern, the mythical and the personal, and showcases Heaney's mastery of language and imagination.
1 de jan. de 2001 · Sweeney Astray is a translation by Seamus Heaney of a medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne that has all the hallmarks of Heaney’s poetics. A long poem about Sweeney, King of the Ulsters who is cursed by the powerful cleric, Ronan, after he is wronged and almost killed by the king.
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85 p. ; 21 cm. "This version of Buile Suibhne is based on J.G. O'Keefe's bilingual edition, which was published by the Irish Texts Society in 1913"--Introd. Access-restricted-item. true. Addeddate.
10 de dez. de 2023 · Sweeney Astray, an Irish epic, which Heaney recasts from an earlier translation by J. G. O’Keefe and which earned him the 1983 PEN Award Translation Prize, stands out among many familiar works.
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.
