| Author/Contributor(s): | Heaney, Seamus |
| Publisher: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
| Date: | 04/01/1985 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
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 of our greatest living poets to reinforce its claims on the reader of contemporary literature.