The Owl and the Nightingale: facsimile of Jesus College Oxford MS. 29 and British Museum MS. Cott (Early English Text Society Original Series) by N.R. Ker

The Owl and the Nightingale: facsimile of Jesus College Oxford MS. 29 and British Museum MS. Cott (Early English Text Society Original Series)

N.R. Ker

78 pages first pub 1210 (editions)

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The Owl and the Nightingale is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as d...

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