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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 04/01/1985
ISBN: 9780374518943
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.22h x 5.86w x 0.34d

Review Citations: Library Journal 11/01/1995 pg. 68