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  2. The Owl and the Nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The Owl and the Nightingale (Latin: Altercatio inter filomenam et bubonem) is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate between an owl and a nightingale as overheard by the poem's narrator.

  3. Medieval debate poetry - Wikipedia

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    The fiery debate in The Owl and the Nightingale is ended with a wren intervening, but critics have variously argued that either the owl or the nightingale is better at employing rhetorical strategy. One critic, Kathryn Hume (in Cartlidge, XIX), suggests that the poem is itself a moralistic warning against pointless quarreling.

  4. The Proverbs of Alfred - Wikipedia

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    However, his legendary status in later tradition gave him a reputation for having done so, as the Middle English poem The Owl and the Nightingale likewise suggests. Some of the proverbs in the Proverbs of Alfred appear elsewhere under another name ( Hendyng , which may itself be less of a proper name than an adjective).

  5. Common nightingale - Wikipedia

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    The love of the nightingale (a conventional cultural substitution for the Persian bulbul) for the rose is widely used as a metaphor for the poet's love for the beloved and the worshiper's love for God in classical Persian, Urdu and Turkish poetry. [25] "The Owl and the Nightingale" (12th or 13th century) is a Middle English poem about an ...

  6. 13th century in poetry - Wikipedia

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    The Owl and the Nightingale perhaps composed around 1280 (but may be up to a century later) Havelok the Dane written in Middle English (c. 1285–1290) [4] Liber sex festorum beatae Virginis written by Gottfried von Hagenau 1293–1300; Völsunga saga is written in the late 13th century

  7. Category:13th-century poems - Wikipedia

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  8. Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal - Wikipedia

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    The poem consists of 96 lines in 13 stanzas. It is an address to Christ through the Virgin Mary. An alternative claim for the first poem in English written by a Welshman is made for John Clanvowe's The Book of Cupid, God of Love or The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, a long love poem based on The Owl and the Nightingale.

  9. Simon Armitage - Wikipedia

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    In 2020 and 2021 Armitage produced a podcast, The Poet Laureate Has Gone to His Shed, also broadcast on BBC Radio 4, in which, while working on the medieval poem The Owl and the Nightingale, he invited a series of 20 guests to come and talk to him in his garden writing-shed; [107] [108] a third series began in 2023. [109]