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Nightingale
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Reaktion Books,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: 'No Better Dress than Russet Brown'
- 1: Natural History Nightingales: 'When the Buds of the Leaves Are Swelling'
- 2: Literary Nightingales: 'Old-World Pain'
- 3: Literary Nightingales: 'Selfsame Song'
- 4: Musical Nightingales: 'Organ of Delight'
- 5: 'Immortal Bird'? Nightingales in Decline
- Timeline
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Associations and Websites
- Acknowledgements
- Photo Acknowledgements
- Index