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  • 131Owl (Winnie-the-Pooh) — Owl is a fictional character in A. A. Milne s Winnie the Pooh books and in Disney s Winnie the Pooh cartoons. Owl s character is based on the archetype of the wise old owl , although in the books, the quality of Owl s wisdom is sometimes… …

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  • 132Owl and the Nightingale, The — (ca. 1189–1216)    The Owl and the Nightingale is a DEBATE POEM in early MIDDLE ENGLISH, written in a southeastern dialect in 1,794 lines of octosyllabic (eight syllable) couplets. The poem survives in two late 13thcentury manuscripts, but was… …

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