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The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
poem by Clanvowe
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- In Sir Thomas Clanvowe
…poet, the reputed author of The Cuckoo and the Nightingale, a poetic debate about love, long attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer. The poem is a traditional dialogue between the two birds on the power of love, with delicate and attractive descriptions of spring, and a verse style that, though faulty at…
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