OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, THE

Middle English poem written probably by Nicholas de Guildford of Dorsetshire about the beginning of the 13th cent. Written in 2,000 lines of octosyllabic couplets, it describes a debate between the sober owl and the merry nightingale as to their respective merits. The allegory may represent the argument between asceticism and pleasure, philosophy and art, or the older didactic poetry and the newer secular love poetry. Conversational diction, humor, and dramatic touches make this poem one of the best of the period.

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The Alliterative Morte Arthure: The Owl and the Nightingale, and Five Other Middle English Poems in a Modernized Version
Book by John Gardner; Southern Illinois University Press, 1973
Subjects: Arthurian Romances, Birds--Poetry, Debate Poetry, English (Middle), English Poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500--Modernized Versions, Kings And Rulers--Poetry
...and Soul , The Thrush and the Nightingale , Lydgate Horse, Goore, and...are handled comically in The Owl and the Nightingale . Here as...reasons. For one thing, the Owl and Nightingale are not interested...the argument came out. The Owl and the Nightingale does begin...
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Florence Nightingale's European Travels
Book by Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2004
Subjects: Europe--Description And Travel, Nightingale, Florence--1820-1910--Travel--Europe, Nurses--England--Biography, Women Social Reformers--England--Biography
...down to the bath. In 113 Apart from the human Hills, there were two tortoises named Mr and Mrs Hill; Athena the owl Nightingale rescued from the Acropolis; Plato a cicada, from Platos own plantane tree.
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Florence Nightingale: An Introduction to Her Life and Family
Book by Lynn McDonald, Florence Nightingale; Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence--1820-1910, Nurses--England--Biography
...wounds. 81 She took her owl Athena, which she had rescued...Athena ate Plato in Prague. Nightingale owned cats throughout her...Perseus had not been killed. Nightingale abhorred Otto von Bismarck...fictional work, Avonhoe, which Nightingale thought had the true literary...is correspondence showing Nightingales concern about the poor quality...
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The Nightingale's Burden: Women Poets and American Culture before 1900
Book by Cheryl Walker; Indiana University Press, 1982
Subjects: American Poetry--19th Century--History And Criticism, American Poetry--Women Authors--History And Criticism, Feminism And Literature, Women In Literature
...Smith says: "I remember Fannie Osgood and Phoebe Carey rather excelled in this small game, but Margaret Fuller looked like an owl at the perpetration of a pun, and I honoured her for it." 13 Expressions of esteem for another woman writer may conceal competitive...
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The Chinese Nightingale: And Other Poems
Book by Vachel Lindsay; The Macmillan company, 1917
Subjects: Poetry
...unkempt, unsatisfied, The wind cried and cried-- Muttered of massacres long past, Buffaloes in shambles vast . . . An owl said: "Hark, what is a-wing?" I heard a cricket carolling, I heard a cricket carolling, I heard a cricket carolling...
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journal articles on: Owl and the Nightingale The  - 54 results

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Nicholas of Guildford and the Owl and the Nightingale
Journal article by Neil Cartlidge; Medium Aevum, Vol. 79, 2010
Subjects: Fictitious characters--Portrayals, The Owl and the Nightingale (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...Guildford and the Owl and the Nightingale. by Neil Cartlidge...as The Owl and the Nightingale. (1) In the first...and thus fond of nightingales and other pretty little...to be swayed in the Nightingales favour. In the second...of The Owl and the Nightingale (if that is what...
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Civic Voices in English Fables: the Owl and the Nightingale and the Nun's Priest's Tale
Journal article by Eugene Green; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2007
Subjects: Comparative analysis, Folklore, Literary criticism, Middle Ages, Poetry, Poets
...The narrator of The Owl and the Nightingale...one more than the nightingale, two less than the owl), alludes but twice...their debate, the owls allusions nearly doubling the nightingales. That the voices...occupatio, too, the owl intensifies her scorn...antagonists, indirectly the nightingale, with yokel shepherds. The owls second excremental...she locates the nightingales perch as near privies...
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The Thrush and the Nightingale
Journal article by R. T. Lambdin; The Explicator, Vol. 50, 1991
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...tradition originated by "The Owl and the Nightingale" (c...conclusion of "The Thrush and the Nightingale", the author seems to have...which the thrush and the nightingale expound their beliefs; the...the virtuous woman. The nightingale presents her side of the...lust. It is not until the nightingales final speech, when she reminds...
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Welty's Anti-Ode to Nightingales: Gabriella's Southern Passage
Journal article by Dawn Trouard; The Mississippi Quarterly, Vol. 50, 1997
Subjects: Short stories, American--Women authors, Travel--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Welty, Eudora--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.
...it all before, from man and owl" (a p. 533). Women must...St. Cecilia, and a certain nightingale, all running incursions on...like a siren: "`And the nightingale ... is the nightingale with us yet?" (p. 600...
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Shorter Notices
Journal article by John J. Thompson, Corinne Saunders, Elva Johnston, Ad Putter, Alexandra Gillespie, D.A. Trotter, Jane H.M. Taylor, D.G. Patterson, Brian Powell; Medium Aevum, Vol. 68, 1999
Subjects: A Miracle of Learning: Studies in Manuscripts and Irish Learning: Essays in Honour of William O'Sullivan (Book)--Reviews, Bede on Tobit and on the Canticle of Habakkuk (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews, Chanter et dire: etudes sur la litterature du moyen age (Book)--Reviews, Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture (Book)--Reviews, Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon (Book)--Reviews, Early Irish Farming, Early Irish Law Series IV (Book)--Reviews, Early Irish Lyrics (Book)--Reviews, El modelo historiografico alfonsi: una caracterizacion (Book)--Reviews, Encomium Emmae Reginae (Book)--Reviews, Fifteenth-Century Studies, volume 23 (Book)--Reviews, From Circle to Tangle: Space in the Poems of the Pearl Manuscript (Book)--Reviews, Interpreting Nightingales: Gender, Class and Histories (Book)--Reviews, Inventiones: Fiction and Refirentiality in Twelfth-Century English Historical Writing (Book)--Reviews, Iohannis de Caulibus Meditaciones vite Christi olim S. Bonauenturo attributae (Book)--Reviews, Kleines Mittelhochdeutsches Worterbuch (Book)--Reviews, La Vie materielle au moyen age: l'apport des sources litteraires, normatives et de la pratique (Book)--Reviews, Le Purgatoire d'Amours (Book)--Reviews, Le Roman de Troie: extraits du manuscrit Milan (Book)--Reviews, Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies (Book)--Reviews, Medieval Heritage: Essays in Honour of Tadahiro Ikegami (Book)--Reviews, Medieval Liturgy: A Book of Essays (Book)--Reviews, Medievalia et humanistica: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture NS 24: Historical Inquiries (Book)--Reviews, Miscellanea mediaevalia: melanges offerts a Philippe Menard (Book)--Reviews, Monarchia (Book)--Reviews, New Approaches to Medieval Textuality (Book)--Reviews, Poem of the Cid: A Modern Translation with Notes (Book)--Reviews, Refiguring Chaucer in the Renaissance (Book)--Reviews, Sur le chemin de longue etude ...: actes du colloque d'Orleans, juillet 1995 (Book)--Reviews, The Arthurian Bibliography, III: 1978-1992: Author Listing and Subject Index (Book)--Reviews, The Broken Body: Passion Devotion in Late-Medieval Culture (Book)--Reviews, The Darkness of God: Negativity in Christian Mysticism (Book)--Reviews, The Deeds of God through the Franks: A Translation of Guibert de Nogent's `Cesta Dei per Francos' (Book)--Reviews, The Endless Knot: Essays on OM and Middle English in Honor of Marie Borroff (Book)--Reviews, The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales (Book)--Reviews, The Legends of the Saints (Book)--Reviews, The Life of Colum Cille by Manus O'Donnell (Book)--Reviews, The Sixth Century: Production, Distribution and Demand (Book)--Reviews, The Yearbook of Langland Studies 10 (Book)--Reviews, Traductions francaises de `l'Ars minor' de Donat au moyen age (Book)--Reviews, Troilus and Criseyde (Poem)--Reviews, Visions of the Other World in Middle English, Annotated Bibliographies of Old and Middle English Literature III (Book)--Reviews, Writing after Chaucer. Essential Readings in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century (Book)--Reviews, `A l'heure encore de mon escrire': aspects de la litterature de Bourgogne sous Philippe le Bon et Charles le Temeraire (Book)--Reviews
...Jeni Williams, Interpreting Nightingales: Gender, Class and Histories...selectively the development of the nightingale as a literary symbol. Jeni...on the relationship of the nightingale to issues of class and gender...that in Greek poetry the nightingale represents a feminine, violated...courtly tradition or to The Owl and the Nightingale. Particularly...
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magazine articles on: Owl and the Nightingale The  - 6 results

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New York News
Magazine article by Edith Eisler; Strings, Vol. 15, April 2001
Subjects: Classical music, Musical performances, Musicians & conductors, New York City New York, Orchestras
...suite from the opera The Song of the Nightingale, the Circus Polka, and Petroucbka...on Edward Lears nonsense verse, "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," his last work...concertmaster, and from the flutist as the nightingale; the trumpeter used unusual dynamics...
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Correspondence
Magazine article; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, April 2001
...In his review of G. Ronald Murphys The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove (January...beautiful maiden, is transformed into a nightingale and taken captive in a castle by a witch...the joy of Christ. Father Murphys The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove does much to...
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Thomas Watson: Poet - and Musician?
Magazine article by Albert Chatterley; Musical Times, Vol. 148, Autumn 2007
Subjects: English language, Poetry
...one of nine regarding the song of the nightingale and is, I believe, quite revealing...silvery moonlight, and if she Another nightingale should chance to hear Offering a challenge...contrasted with the nightjar, the screech owl, the starling, the vulture and the...
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Getting and Spending: Nostalgia for the Old Way of Reading Poetry
Magazine article by Phyllis Rose; American Scholar, Vol. 70, Autumn 2001
Subjects: Poetry--Appreciation, Wordsworth, William--Appreciation
...Everglades, the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, the spotted owl and the Northwest lumber companies, the salmon versus the...anthology that was his memory, the words of Keatss "Ode to a Nightingale": "Forlorn! the very word is like a bell / To toll me back...
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The Laughter of the Philosophers
Magazine article by David B. Hart; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, The HUmor of Kierkegaard (Book)--Book reviews
...creation story, or to a deaf man about the harmony of a little nightingale or Italian castrato than submit myself any longer to an opponent...faces, "a calfs eye like Junos, and the watery eye of an owl") before concluding with the recommendation that Hamann be...
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Lady Behind the Lamp. More Soldiers Died in Florence Nightingale's Hospital Than on the Battlefield She Had a Mental Breakdown and Shut Herself Away for Years EXCLUSIVE
Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), May 31, 2008
Subjects: Nightingale, Florence
...Soldiers Died in Florence Nightingales Hospital Than on the Battlefield...soldiers. But the real Florence Nightingale was very different from the...when she established the Nightingale Training School for nurses...was turned down. Florence Nightingale, BBC1, tomorrow, 7pm. Florence had a pet owl, Athena, who travelled...
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One for the Birds; PECKING ORDER: Even in a Small Area Chris, Left, Has at Least Ten Feeding Devices, Attracting Birds Including, Clockwise from Top Left, the Owl, Nightjar, Red Kite and Bullfinch
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), October 26, 2008
Subjects: Birds
...Attracting Birds Including, Clockwise from Top Left, the Owl, Nightjar, Red Kite and Bullfinch. Byline: MARTYN COX...bird in and around his garden. This includes short-eared owls, bullfinches, red kites and nightjars. Hes even heard the distinctive song of a nightingale, but has yet to spot this small brown bird in the flesh...
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ASK YOUR FAMILY! Think You're Brain of Britain? Try These Fiendishly Fun Questions Compiled by the Mail in Tribute to King of the Quizmasters Robert Robinson
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 20, 2011
...Which Victorian lady travelled everywhere with a pet owl in her pocket? c) Who was Britains first female doctor...Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry). b) Florence Nightingale (the owl was named Athena). c) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson...
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ASK YOUR FAMILY! Think You're Brain of Britain? Try These Fiendishly Fun Questions Compiled by the Mail in Tribute to King of the Quizmasters Robert Robinson
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 20, 2011
...Which Victorian lady travelled everywhere with a pet owl in her pocket? c) Who was Britains first female doctor...Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry).b) Florence Nightingale (the owl was named Athena). c) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson...
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ARTS DIARY: OPERA L'enfant et Les Sortileges, European Opera Centre/ Cornerstone at Hope, Liverpool
Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), December 4, 2006
...furniture and objects which surround him. One cast member, for instance, has to play the fire, a country girl, a nightingale and an owl. Another had to force himself into being a teapot, a little old man and a frog. Did it work? On the whole...
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encyclopedia articles on: Owl and the Nightingale The  - 2 results

 
 
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Owl and the Nightingale, The
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
OWL AND THE NIGHTINGALE, THE Middle English poem written probably by Nicholas de Guildford...octosyllabic couplets, it describes a debate between the sober owl and the merry nightingale as to their respective merits. The allegory may represent the...
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Middle English Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Of approximately the same date, The Owl and the Nightingale (see separate article) is the first...continental form; in the poem, the owl, strictly monastic and didactic, and the nightingale, a free and amorous secular spirit...


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