The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poems and Its Critics
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The Owl and the Nightingale is clearly one of the few major Middle English poems. Despite the clarity and simplicity of its text, however, the poem has occasioned bitter and still unresolved interpretative controversy. Is the key to its meaning to be found in bird lore? the debate form? Is the poem a political or religious allegory? Despite the radical contradictions in the conclusions of previous critics, most of them have implicitly claimed a...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1487591861
ISBN13:9781487591861
Release Date:December 1975
Publisher:University of Toronto Press
Length:152 Pages
Weight:0.40 lbs.
Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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