Nightingale

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Cover -- 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.