[PDF] The Owl And The Nightingale eBook

Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0571357318

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Following his acclaimed translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl, Simon Armitage shines light on another jewel of Middle English verse. In his highly engaging version, Armitage communicates the energy and humour of the tale with all the cut and thrust of the original. An unnamed narrator overhears a fierce verbal contest between the two eponymous birds, which moves entertainingly from the eloquent and philosophical to the ribald and ridiculous. The disputed issues still resonate - concerning identity, cultural habits, class distinctions and the right to be heard. Excerpts were featured in the BBC Radio 4 podcast, The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed. Including the lively illustrations of Clive Hicks-Jenkins, this is a book for the whole household to read and enjoy.

Author : Neil Cartlidge
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,59 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :

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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 "most miraculous 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 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 possible sources.

Author : J W H 1874-1951 Atkins
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 37,93 MB
Release : 2018-02-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781376721133

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Author : Jane Ray
Publisher :
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 30,17 MB
Release : 2013-09-05
Category :
ISBN : 9781907152597

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This collection of stories includes retellings of favourite's such as 'The Happy Prince', 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' and many more.