LEADER 02390nam 22004213 450 001 9910794517803321 005 20231110233033.0 010 $a1-78914-475-2 035 $a(CKB)4100000011984549 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6682750 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6682750 035 $a(OCoLC)1262330743 035 $a(BIP)081010897 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011984549 100 $a20210901d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aNightingale 210 1$aLondon :$cReaktion Books, Limited,$d2021. 210 4$dİ2021. 215 $a1 online resource (206 pages) 225 1 $aAnimal 311 $a1-78914-474-4 327 $aCover -- 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. 330 8 $aA melodious paean to the natural history and symbolic meaning of the most prized, poetized, and mythologized of songbirds.The nightingale has a unique place in cultural history: the most prized of songbirds, it has inspired more poems than any other creature, and it is also the most mythologized of birds. Nightingale juxtaposes the bird of poetry, music, myth, and lore with the living bird of wood and scrubland, unpicking the entangled relationship between them. Covering a huge range of poets, musicians, artists, nature writers, and natural historians--from Aristotle, Keats, and Vera Lynn to Bob Dylan--Nightingale charts our fascination through history with this nondescript yet melodious little brown bird. It also documents the nightingale's disappearance from British breeding grounds and the implications this has for nightingale conservation. 410 0$aAnimal 676 $a598.842 700 $aRoberts$b Bethan$01025246 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910794517803321 996 $aNightingale$93715052 997 $aUNINA