Record no. 717. How do I cite this entry?
A Light Appeared and the Place Brightened
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- Genre/Type Descriptor(s)
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Card
Poem or Poetry
Translation from Old English - Language(s)
- English
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- Translator
- Heaney, Seamus
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- Publisher
- Peter Fallon / The Gallery Press
- Date
- 1999
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- Relationships
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(Upstream) Extracts from -> Beowulf, Heaney, Seamus (1999)
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- Descriptive Notes
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Bookseller's description: "Folding card, 6 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. Image on cover, lines 1570-72 from the poet's translation of Beowulf printed inside. Privately published for the author by Peter Fallon/The Gallery Press at Christmas 1999. Inscribed and signed to close friends in the poet's hand from Seamus and Marie Heaney."
- Scholarship
• Ashby Bland Crowder, “Christmas Greetings from Seamus Heaney,” New Hibernia Review 21.3 (2017): 34–58, at 38.
- Notes on Prior Documentation
Not mentioned specifically in MO2, but MO2 1987(c) references Heaney's "many other fragmentary translations" in advance of his 1999 full translation.
- Authentication
[Awaiting access to Cushing Library copy. For now, Crowder as cited in Scholarship, above, and online bookseller's description.]
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- Last Updated
- 04/02/2022