The Owl and the Nightingale
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title:
The Owl and the Nightingale
text:
The Owl and the Nightingale 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. It is the earliest example in Middle English of a literary form known as debate poetry. Verse contests from this time period were usually written in Anglo-Norman or Latin. This poem shows the influence of French linguistic, literary, and rhetorical techniques. After the Norman conquest, French became a predominant language in
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Middle English poem
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Owl_and_the_Nightingale
date created:
2005-02-04T01:04:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T00:41:30Z
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