Nightingale by Bethan Roberts
Charts our historic fascination with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird.
"With grace and vision, Roberts lets us hear the music and mystery of nightingales sounding across centuries and culturesThis powerfully attentive study of an astonishing bird is also a miniature history of literature and of human efforts to find words for nature. Deeply researched, lyrical, elegiac, rich with hope and vitality, this is a book for our times." -- Alexandra Harris, Professorial Fellow in English at the University of Birmingham, author of "Romantic Moderns" "Roberts's book is lucid, exhaustive, generous, and intelligent. . . . All poets should read it. All birdwatchers should too. It reads true to the bird as well as to the long history of its human-imagined existence. To have seen what we have made of nightingales and to be able to leave us with the bird restored to itself is a great achievement." -- Tim Dee, author of "Greenery" and "The Running Sky"
Bethan Roberts is the William Noble Postdoctoral Research Associate in English at the University of Liverpool. She is author of Charlotte Smith and the Sonnet: Form, Place and Tradition in the Late Eighteenth Century (2019).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781789144741 |
| ISBN 10 | 1789144744 |
| Title | Nightingale |
| Author | Bethan Roberts |
| Series | Animal |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Reaktion Books |
| Year published | 2021-10-11 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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