The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation by Simon Armitage

The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation

Simon Armitage

144 pages first pub 2021 (editions)

fiction poetry lighthearted medium-paced
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The Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming couplets, line by l...

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