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

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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.

Genres poetryclassicsirish literaturemythologyireland

42 pages, Paperback

First published December 14,1993

This edition

Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2001 by Gallery Books
ISBN: 9781852352820
ASIN: 1852352825
Language: English

About the author

seamus heaney

Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.

This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."

Heaney on Wikipedia.