Interpreting Nightingales: Gender, Class and HistoriesBloomsbury Academic, 1997 - 299 pages The poetic nightingale is so familiar it seems hardly to merit serious attention. Yet its ubiquity is significant, suggesting associations with erotic love, pathos and art that cross culture and history. This book examines the different nightingales of European literature, starting with the Greek myth of Philomela, the raped girl, silenced by having her tongue cut out, and then transformed into the bird whose name means poet, poetry and nightingale simultaneously. Moving from the classical to the Christian worlds, Jeni Williams discusses nightingales and nature in the early church and sees the emergence of the figure as an emotive emblem of the aristocracy in mediaeval vernacular debate poetry. Her final chapters use the nightingale and the myth to examine Elizabeth Barrett Browning's struggle for an active female voice in Victorian poetry. |
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... Sophocles ' Tereus but also of ( at the least ) a tetralogy , the Pandionis of Philocles , of which no fragments remain . Elsewhere it appears in Sophocles ' Ajax and Trachiniae ( see p . 228 ) . As with Aeschylus's references to the ...
... Sophocles ( ? 496–406 BCE ) ( i ) Antigone . Where we stand is surely holy ground ; A wilderness of laurel , olive , vine ; Within a choir of songster nightingales Are warbling . ( Sophocles : trans . F. Storr , 1912 , vol . I , Oedipus ...
... Sophocles , Oedipus at Colonus , in Sophocles , I ( trans . F. Storr , 1912 ) . -Ajax ; Trachiniae , in Sophocles , II ( 1913 ) . Theocritus , Idyll XV : ' The Women at the Adonis Festival ' , The Greek Bucolic Poets ( trans . J.M. ...