The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid

Seamus Heaney

42 pages, Paperback

ISBN: 1852352825

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Language: English

Publish: 978336000000

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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.

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