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Heaney, Seamus [Author], Giese

SWEENEY'S FLIGHT Based on the Revised Text of 'Sweeney Astray' with the Complete Revised Text of 'Sweeney Astray'

Faber and Faber, 1992

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Year of publication
1992
Place of printing
London
Author
Heaney, Seamus [Author], Giese
Publishers
Faber and Faber

Description

First Edition. With 34 beautifully reproduced black and white photographs of haunting Northern Irish landscapes by Rachel Giese. 4to, in the publisher's original green cloth, lettered on the spine in gilt, and in the original glossy dustjacket featuring two of Ms. Giese's photographs. ix, 117pp. A very fine copy, the jacket with a little wrinkling

Edizione: thirty-four exceptional photographs of northern ireland, which heaney has matched with extracts and quotations from sweeney astray, revised especially for this book. heaney has written a preface to this joint work, and the second half contains the complete revised poem.<br> sweeney astray is heaney's version of the medieval irish tale buile shuibhne, for which he won the 1985 pen translation prize for poetry in 1985. new york-born photographer rachel giese began traveling to ireland in the late 1970s, drawn to the light, the weather, and the history.