The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poems and Its Critics

by Kathryn Hume

Book Overview

The Owl and the Nightingale is clearly one of the few major Middle English poems. Despite the clarity and simplicity of its text, however, the poem has occasioned bitter and still unresolved interpretative controversy. Is the key to its meaning to be found in bird lore? the debate form? Is the poem a political or religious allegory? Despite the radical contradictions in the conclusions of previous critics, most of them have implicitly claimed a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487591861
• ISBN13: 9781487591861
• Release Date: December 1975
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher