TY  - GEN
T1  - The owl and the nightingale
T2  - Lockert library of poetry in translation.
A2  - Armitage, Simon, 1963-
LA  - English
LA  - English, Middle (1100-1500)
PP  - Princeton, New Jersey
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1347351603
AB  - "One of the earliest literary works to be written in Middle English and one of the first comic poems in the English language, The Owl and the Nightingale (1189-1216) is an anonymous work that describes a debate between two birds. In arguing about such topics as love, marriage, and nesting habits, the owl and the nightingale address issues that remain relevant to contemporary society, such as identity, cultural background, class distinctions, and the right to be heard. The British Library describes it as "a humorous piece of avian mud-slinging as the birds quarrel, not always good-naturedly." It is composed of octosyllabic couplets in an early form of Middle English from before the age of Chaucer. Some scholars see it as a commentary on different traditions of debate; others read it as a reflection of modern scientific thinking on the differences between the human and the animal. The award-winning poet Simon Armitage has translated the 1,700-line poem using full rhyming couplets in iambic octameter. The book includes a facing-page translation of the poem, along with an introduction by Armitage. To produce the translation he worked from facsimile and transcribed editions of the two surviving manuscripts, one at the British Library and one at Jesus College, Oxford, as well as from several other published and online resources. Having already translated Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur, and Pearl, he expects that this is his last medieval translation"--
OP  - 132
CN  - PR2109.O7 A317 2022
SN  - 9780691237213
SN  - 0691237212
SN  - 9780691239958
SN  - 0691239959
SN  - 9780691206189
SN  - 069120618X
SN  - 9780691245720
SN  - 069124572X
SN  - 9780691202167
SN  - 0691202168
KW  - Birds : Poetry.
KW  - Debate poetry, English (Middle)
KW  - Debate poetry, English (Middle) : Translations into English.
KW  - Civilization.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Oiseaux : Poésie.
KW  - Civilisation.
KW  - Livres numériques.
KW  - civilization.
KW  - e-books.
KW  - POETRY / Medieval.
KW  - Birds
KW  - Adultery.
KW  - Age of the Earth.
KW  - Age of the universe.
KW  - Aircraft.
KW  - Alien Technology.
KW  - Alien visitation.
KW  - Alpha Centauri.
KW  - Apollo program.
KW  - Aptitude.
KW  - Aristotle.
KW  - Arthur C. Clarke.
KW  - Astrology.
KW  - Astronomer.
KW  - Astronomy.
KW  - Atomic number.
KW  - Author.
KW  - Authorship.
KW  - Baking.
KW  - Billion years.
KW  - Chemical element.
KW  - Complication (horology).
KW  - Cosmic microwave background.
KW  - Courtesy.
KW  - Crone.
KW  - Crop circle.
KW  - Designer.
KW  - Dirge (Transformers).
KW  - Disgust.
KW  - Dwarf planet.
KW  - Earth's orbit.
KW  - Earth.
KW  - Embarrassment.
KW  - Exoplanet.
KW  - Foe (novel).
KW  - Galileo Galilei.
KW  - General relativity.
KW  - Genre.
KW  - Geocentric model.
KW  - Gravity.
KW  - Harassment.
KW  - Horoscope.
KW  - Hour.
KW  - Hubble Space Telescope.
KW  - In Death.
KW  - Indiscretion (Star Trek Deep Space Nine).
KW  - Intention.
KW  - International Astronomical Union.
KW  - Interstellar medium.
KW  - Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
KW  - Lament.
KW  - Light-year.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - Martian.
KW  - Medieval poetry.
KW  - Mercury (planet).
KW  - Meteorite.
KW  - Microorganism.
KW  - Microsoft.
KW  - Military aircraft.
KW  - Misery (novel).
KW  - Misfortune (folk tale).
KW  - Monologue.
KW  - Moon rock.
KW  - Mount Wilson Observatory.
KW  - National Air and Space Museum.
KW  - Neptune.
KW  - Neutron.
KW  - Newton's laws of motion.
KW  - Orbit.
KW  - Pierre-Simon Laplace.
KW  - Pity.
KW  - Poetry.
KW  - Prediction.
KW  - Radiometric dating.
KW  - Residence.
KW  - Result.
KW  - Rodent.
KW  - Science.
KW  - Scientist.
KW  - Self-awareness.
KW  - Singing.
KW  - Skepticism.
KW  - Slinky.
KW  - Spacecraft.
KW  - Spiral galaxy.
KW  - Tactic (method).
KW  - Technology.
KW  - Tendril.
KW  - The Owl and the Nightingale.
KW  - Tit (bird).
KW  - To the Moon.
KW  - Trickster.
KW  - Two Birds (Awake).
KW  - Uncertainty.
KW  - Unidentified flying object.
KW  - Uranium-238.
KW  - Wild boar.
KW  - William the Conqueror.
KW  - Year.
KW  - Yokel.
KW  - poetry.
KW  - Debate poetry
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Translations
KW  - Debate poetry.
KW  - Débats (Poésie)
KW  - Poésie.
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