The Owl and the Nightingale

A poem composed probably late 12th century, this has been seen by Anne Baldwin as an allegory, a satire of the dispute between church and state, the Becket Dispute in particular, with Henry II as the Nightingale and Becket as the Owl. The Owl wins the dispute. Others have debunked this theory.

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The Owl and the Nightingale 

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Henry II and "The Owl and the Nightingale"

Anne W. Baldwin

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology

Vol. 66, No. 2 (Apr., 1967), pp. 207-229

Published by: University of Illinois Press

Article Stable URL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/27705311

Antonio Bravo García; Santiago González y Fernández-Corugedo; F. García García; Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo (1991). The Owl and the Nightingale: A Critical Text of B.L. MS Cotton Caligula A.IX, Ff.233r-246r. Contrasted with B.Ox. MS Jesus College 29, Ff.156r-168v. Universidad de Oviedo. ISBN 978-84-7468-279-3

Christopher Page (January 1990). The Owl and the Nightingale: Musical Life and Ideas in France 1100-1300. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06944-2

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Kathryn Hume (1975). The owl and the nightingale: the poem and its critics. University of Toronto Press.

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The Allegorical Interpretation of the Owl and the Nightingale
by Alphonse Mattlin Mattlin

http://ecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1659&context=luc_theses

The Date of "The Owl and the Nightingale"
Henry Barrett Hinckley
Modern Philology
Vol. 17, No. 5 (Sep., 1919), pp. 247-258
http://www.jstor.org/stable/433116

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Two notes on the Owl and the Nightingale

Irene Moran 
English Studies 
Vol. 59, Iss. 6, 1978