The Owl and the Nightingale
by Eric Gerald Stanley
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The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts. By turns both gleefully trivial and allusively serious, it has been described by literary critics as a "mostmiraculous piece of writing", "a marvel of literary art" and "a truly amazing phenomenon". There is no other edition currently in print and this is the first new English edition of the poem since 1960.The show more book contains a lively parallel-text translation in modern English, as well as a glossary, notes and Introduction. The edition has involved a complete reconsideration of the poem's complex textual history, its linguistic provenance and the practices of its scribes, as well as its possiblesources. show lessTags
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Ex libris Siegried Wenzel. Ex libris John S. Kenyon (with his marginal comments, mostly acerbic).
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- The Owl and the Nightingale
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- Introduction to the Ker EETS edition:
The Owl and the Nightingale exists only in two fairly closely related manuscripts, on ff. 156-168v of Jesus College, Oxford, MS. 29 and on ff. 233-46 of British Museum MS. Cotton Calig... (show all)ula A.IX. - Original language
- Middle English
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- Poetry, Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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- 821.1 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English Poetry 1066-1400 Early English period, medieval period
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- PR2109 .O7 .A15 — Language and Literature English English Literature Anglo-Norman period. Early English. Middle English
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