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THE MIDNIGHT VERDICT - 1993

by Heaney Seamus

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Loughcrew, County Meath: The Gallery Press, 1993. First edition LIMITED to 1000 copies. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine, and in the original dustjacket. 42pp. A beautiful copy, as mint and pristine but for one tiny unobtrusive bump. A BEAUTIFUL COPY OF THIS LIMITED FIRST PRINTING OF ONLY 1000 COPIES. "The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman (c.1745-1805) and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid 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 Cúirt an Mheán Oíche (The Midnight Court) 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 classic Irish poem. The idea of juxtaposing the three pieces came out of ‘a single impulse’, said the poet in his translator’s note. Each of the translations can be read for its own sake or as part of a triptych. By setting within the acoustic of a classical myth, Heaney added a further chapter to his work as a translator and provided a new and illuminating context for Merriman’s classic work." - Gallery Press
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