The Owl and the Nightingale (Latin: Altercatio inter filomenam et bubonem) is a twelfth- or thirteenth-century Middle English poem detailing a debate...

(1382?). In the former the argument is loud and vindictive, with the nightingale condescendingly insulting the owl for having a toneless and depressing...

The common nightingale, rufous nightingale or simply nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos), is a small passerine bird which is best known for its powerful...

the medieval debate poem The Owl and the Nightingale. It was characterized as an overtly blunt term in John Lydgate's The Fall of Princes, c. 1440. William...

Florence Nightingale OM RRC DStJ (/ˈnaɪtɪŋɡeɪl/; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing...

naturalistic detail in their retellings. In the contemporary poem "The Owl and the Nightingale", for instance, the nightingale, arguing that its one ability (to...

Love or The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, a long love poem based on The Owl and the Nightingale. Stephens, Meic (1998). The New Companion to the Literature...

adjectives for the masculine accusative, genitive, and dative, the feminine dative, and the plural genitive. The Owl and the Nightingale adds a final -e...

ISBN 978-0-7475-3269-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) Cartlidge, Neil (2001). The owl and the nightingale: Text and translation. Exeter: University of Exeter...

beer or mead in victory, then invite the loser to drink as well. The 13th-century poem The Owl and the Nightingale and Geoffrey Chaucer's Parlement of Foules...