The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Simon ArmitageSeries:Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #134Publish date:2024-11-05Pages:144
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691206189ISBN-10:069120618XUPC:9780691206189Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, MedievalBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCBP8FRTP1
The Owl and the Nightingale: A New Verse Translation
From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a complete verse translation of a spirited and humorous medieval English poem
The Owl and the Nightingale, one of the earliest literary works in Middle English, is a lively, anonymous comic poem about two birds who embark on a war of words in a wood, with a nearby poet reporting their argument in rhyming...Series: Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation #134
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691206189ISBN-10:069120618XUPC:9780691206189Book Category:Poetry, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, MedievalBook Topic:English, Irish, Scottish, WelshSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.4299Product ID:SCBP8FRTP1
Simon Armitage is UK Poet Laureate and professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. The former Oxford Professor of Poetry, he also previously taught at Princeton University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. In addition to celebrated translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Death of King Arthur, and Pearl, he has published more than a dozen poetry collections and three bestselling...
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