The Translations of Séamus Heaney

Name: The Translations of Séamus Heaney
Author: Séamus Heaney
ISBN: 9780374277734

by Séamus Heaney

ISBN: 9780374277734

Published: 2023-03-21

Poetry

The complete translations of the poet Seamus Heaney, a Nobel laureate and prolific, revolutionary translator. Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, published in 2000, was immediately hailed as an undisputed masterpiece, “something imperishable and great” (James Wood, The Guardian). A few years after his death in 2013, his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book VI caused a similar stir, providing “a remarkable and fitting epilogue to one of the great poetic careers of recent times” (Nick Laird, Harper’s Magazine). Now, for the first time, the poet, critic, and essayist’s translations are gathered in one volume. Heaney not only translated classic works of Latin and Old English but also a great number of poems from Spanish, Romanian, Dutch, Russian, German, Scottish Gaelic, Czech, Classical and Modern Greek, Modern and Middle French, Medieval and Modern Italian, and more. In particular, the Nobel laureate engaged with works in Old, Middle, and Modern Irish, the languages of his home...

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