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The Virgin and the Nightingale:
By Fleur Adcock

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Medieval Latin poems with Adcock's witty translations, mostly about birds and young women, including the brilliant erotic poetry of Peter of Blois

£6.95 Paperback
0 90642 756 8. 96pp. 1983.
£10.95 Cloth
0 90642 755 X. 96pp. 1983.
Subjects: Bilingual Editions , Humorous , Latin (Medieval) , Mainstream , Political/Social , Translations , Women

Title now out of print

Other books by Fleur Adcock:
Dragon Talk
Poems 1960-2000
The Poetry Quartets 2

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