‘Few people will have heard of The Owl and the Nightingale and fewer will have read it, but it is arguably the greatest early Middle English poem we have, and quite unlike most people’s idea of what a medieval poem should be.’

Nick Spencer reviews a neglected medieval poem for Prospect.

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