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The Owl and the Nightingale

edited by Neil Cartlidge

The Owl and the Nightingale is one of the first and greatest long comic poems in the English language and one of the best-known and most accomplished of all medieval literary texts. By turns both gleefully trivial and allusively serious, it has been described by literary critics as a 'most miraculous piece of writing', 'a marvel of literary art' and 'a truly amazing phenomenon'. There is no other edition currently in print and this is the first new English edition of the poem since 1960.

The book contains a lively parallel-text translation in modern English, as well as a glossary, notes and Introduction. The edition has involved a complete reconsideration of the poem's complex textual history, its linguistic provenance and the practices of its scribes, as well as its possible sources. 256p, 2 b/w halftones (U of Exeter Press, Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies, 2001)

ISBN-13: 978-0-85989-690-0
ISBN-10: 0-85989-690-0

Paperback. Price US $31.95
This book is generally in stock.

Review Quotes

"What is impressive about this edition...is the range and depth of the information it provides, the lucid and balanced summing up of the editor's conclusions, and the way in which the reader...is clearly informed as to the primary and secondary sources should he wish to consult them in support of his own opinion or simply to increase his understanding of the poem."

Notes and Queries (March 2002)

"[Cartlidge] provides a complete glossary and exhaustive bibliography, and an entertaining appendix of comparable works on owls, nightingales, hawks and jealous husbands. His parallel-text translation is exemplary: transparent and lucid, and with more claim to expressive grace than Cartlidge makes for it. This is an edition equally valuable for the student and the specialist."

Times Literary Supplement


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