Nightingale

By: Bethan Roberts

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Paperback | 1 February 2022

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224 Pages

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18.9 x 13.6 x 1.5

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A melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds.

The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth, and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them.

Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers, and natural historians from Aristotle, Keats, and Vera Lynn to Bob Dylan Nightingale charts our fascination through history with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird. It also documents the nightingale's disappearance from British breeding grounds and the implications this has for nightingale conservation.

About the Author

Bethan Roberts is the William Noble Postdoctoral Research Associate in English at the University of Liverpool. She is the author of Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Place, Tradition and Form in the Late Eighteenth Century.

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