Sweeney Astray
(Redirected fromSweeney's Flight)
 First edition | |
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Field Day Publications, Derry/Dublin[1] |
Publication date | 1983-11-01[1] |
| Publication place | Ireland |
| Pages | 85 |
| ISBN | 0-946755-03-5 |
| OCLC | 11339072 |
| 821/.914 19 | |
| LC Class | PR6058.E2 S9 1984b |
Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irishis a version of theIrishpoemBuile Shuibhnewritten bySeamus Heaney,based on an earlier edition and translation by J. G. O'Keeffe.[2][3][4]The work was first published in 1983 and won the 1985PEN Translation Prizefor poetry.[5]
PhotographerRachel Gieseand Heaney later collaborated to juxtapose selected passages of Heaney's translation with Giese's photographs of sites mentioned in the text, a work published asSweeney's Flight.[6][7]
Editions[edit]
- Seamus Heaney,Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish(Derry: Field Day Publications, 1983),ISBN0-946755-03-5
- Seamus Heaney,Sweeney Astray(London: Faber, 1984),ISBN0571133606
- Seamus Heaney and Rachael Giese,Sweeney's Flight: Based on the Revised Text of 'Sweeney Astray', with the Complete Revised Text of 'Sweeney Astray'(New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992); pp. 85–117 print the complete text, with revisions
- Seamus Heaney,Sweeney Astray(London: Faber and Faber, 2001)ISBN0571210090;prints the revised text first published inSweeney's Flight
Anthologisations[edit]
Selections fromSweeney Astrayappear in:
- Seamus Heaney,New Selected Poems 1966–1987(London: Faber and Faber, 1990),ISBN9780571143726
- Seamus Heaney,Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996(London: Faber and Faber, 1998),ISBN9780571262793
References[edit]
- ^abSaunders, Emma (2010)."Field Day Papers"(PDF).National Library of Ireland. p. 81.Retrieved7 December2014.
- ^John, Brian (December 1985). "Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish by Seamus Heaney; Station Island by Seamus Heaney; Hailstones by Seamus Heaney".The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies.11(2): 89–91.doi:10.2307/25512647.JSTOR25512647.
- ^Downum, Denell (Fall–Winter 2009)."Sweeney Astray: The Other in Oneself".Éire-Ireland.44(3 & 4): 75–93.doi:10.1353/eir.0.0050.S2CID162015621.Retrieved5 December2014.
- ^O'Keeffe, James G. (1913),Buile Shuibhne (The Frenzy of Suibhne). Being the Adventures of Suibhne Geilt. A Middle-Irish Romance,Irish Texts Society, vol. XII, London: D. Nutt, 198pp – via Internet Archive
- ^"PEN Translation Prize".PEN America.10 June 2020.Retrieved19 June2024.
- ^McCarthy, Conor (2008).Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry.DS Brewer. p. 8.ISBN9781843841418.Retrieved5 December2014.
- ^Potts, Donna L. (2011).Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition.University of Missouri. pp.63–64.ISBN9780826219435.Retrieved5 December2014.
Sweeney's Flight.