num_pages: 42
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid
titlecomplete: The Midnight Verdict: Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid
genres: Ireland, Mythology, Poetry, Classics, Irish Literature
ratings_count: 44
publisher: Gallery Books