Ebook: The midnight verdict
Author: Heaney Seamus, Orpheus (Greek mythological character), Merriman Brian, Ovid 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D
- Tags: Orpheus -- (Greek mythological character) -- Poetry.
- Series: Gallery books
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: Gallery Press
- City: Chester Springs, PA, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland
- Edition: 1st pbk. ed
- Language: English
- epub
"Each of the translations in this book can be read for its own sake or as part of a triptych. By setting excerpts of Brian Merriman's Cuirt an Mhean Oiche within the acoustic of a classical myth (the story of Orpheus and Eurydice), Seamus Heaney provides a new and illuminating context for the eighteenth century Irish poem. For this paperback reissue, the poet has made some revisions in the text of the original Read more...
Abstract: "Each of the translations in this book can be read for its own sake or as part of a triptych. By setting excerpts of Brian Merriman's Cuirt an Mhean Oiche within the acoustic of a classical myth (the story of Orpheus and Eurydice), Seamus Heaney provides a new and illuminating context for the eighteenth century Irish poem. For this paperback reissue, the poet has made some revisions in the text of the original Gallery Press edition."--Jacket