The Owl and the Nightingale – The Poems and Its Critics Hume Paperback

The Owl and the Nightingale\nby Kathryn Hume\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kathryn Hume\nTitle: The Owl and the Nightingale\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1975\nISBN-13: 9781487591861\nISBN-10: 1487591861\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe 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 imp.