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. By BRENDAN KENNELLY. SWEENEY ASTRAY. A Version From the Irish. By Seamus Heaney. ne of the crucial signs of a genuine imagination is its ability to give new life to old myths, stories and legends. 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. The work was first published in and won the PEN Translation Prize for verse, the first year the prize was awarded as www.doorway.ru by: 5.
In Search of Sweeney's Song. Febru. Catherine Heaney. Photograph by Molly Martin. Composer and musician Neil Martin - a long-time friend of Seamus Heaney - has taken the poet's translation of Sweeney Astray and set it to music for a special St Patrick's Day concert in Dublin. Here he writes about the challenges and joys of. Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, 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. "Sweeney Astray" is a masterpiece on many levels: for the complex weave of its themes to the lyrical quality of its prose--accentuated greatly, of course, by Seamus Heaney's virtuoso translation. We follow mad Sweeney in his crazed wanderings through the forest and hills, torn within himself by his love of the wild and his incurable loneliness.
Sweeney Astray is Seamus Heaney's version of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibne. Its here, 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. SWEENEY ASTRAY. Published in , 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 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 Old Irish literature and this translation not only restored a work of historical and literary importance, but allowed. Seamus Heaney on Mad Sweeney the king cursed by a saint and condemned to live as a bird until his death. Seamus Heaney 's latest book 'Sweeney Astray', a combination of verse and prose, is.
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