The owl and the nightingale /

One of the earliest literary works to be written in Middle English and one of the first comic poems in the English language, The Owl and the Nightingale (1189-1216) is an anonymous work that describes a debate between two birds. In arguing about such topics as love, marriage and nesting habits, the...

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Uniform Title:	Owl and the nightingale (Middle English poem).
Other Authors:	Armitage, Simon, 1963- (Translator)
Format:	Book
Language:	English English, Middle (1100-1500)
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2022].
Series:	Lockert library of poetry in translation.
Subjects:	Birds > Poetry. Debate poetry, English (Middle) Debate poetry, English (Middle) > Translations into English.