Jeni Williams lectures in the English Department, Swansea University, the English Department, Swansea Institute and the School of English Communications and Philosophy, Cardiff University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reflecting on the Nightingale.1. Sorrowful Weaving: Nightingales in Greek and Latin texts2. Christian Nightingales: Transforming the Classical to the Christian; the Sacred to the Erotic3. Debating Class and Gender: Medieval English Nightingales4. Fragmentation and Alienation: Victorian Nightingales5. Bitter Confusions: Barrett Browning among the NightingalesAppendix 1. Nightingales in Classical LiteratureAppendix 2. Christian Latin PoemsNotesBibliographyIndex of Names and Titles

Jeni Williams lectures in the English Department, Swansea University, the English Department, Swansea Institute and the School of English Communications and Philosophy, Cardiff University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reflecting on the Nightingale.1. Sorrowful Weaving: Nightingales in Greek and Latin texts2. Christian Nightingales: Transforming the Classical to the Christian; the Sacred to the Erotic3. Debating Class and Gender: Medieval English Nightingales4. Fragmentation and Alienation: Victorian Nightingales5. Bitter Confusions: Barrett Browning among the NightingalesAppendix 1. Nightingales in Classical LiteratureAppendix 2. Christian Latin PoemsNotesBibliographyIndex of Names and Titles

Jeni Williams lectures in the English Department, Swansea University, the English Department, Swansea Institute and the School of English Communications and Philosophy, Cardiff University.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction. Reflecting on the Nightingale.1. Sorrowful Weaving: Nightingales in Greek and Latin texts2. Christian Nightingales: Transforming the Classical to the Christian; the Sacred to the Erotic3. Debating Class and Gender: Medieval English Nightingales4. Fragmentation and Alienation: Victorian Nightingales5. Bitter Confusions: Barrett Browning among the NightingalesAppendix 1. Nightingales in Classical LiteratureAppendix 2. Christian Latin PoemsNotesBibliographyIndex of Names and Titles