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Editions:

• Brown, Carleton (Ed). English Lyrics of the XIIIth Century. Oxford 1932:101-107.
• Conlee, John (Ed.). Middle English Debate Poetry: A Critical Anthology. East Lansing 1991:239-247.
• Dickins, Bruce and R. M. Wilson (Eds.). Early Middle English Texts. London 1965:71-76.
• Gardner, John (Ed.). The Alliterative Morte Arthure, The Owl and the Nightingale, and Five Other Middle English Poems in Modernized Version with Comments on the Poems and Notes. London 1971:177-182
• Holthausen, F. "Der mittelenglische Streit zwischen Drossel und Nachtigall," Anglia 43 (1919):52-60.

Studies:

• Hilgers, Sister Mary. A Study of the Middle English Bird Debate: Backgrounds, Form, Matter, and Charactarization. University of Notre Dame Ph.D. 1973.
• Franklin, Michael J. "The Fieldfare and the Nightingale: A Note on The Thrush and the Nightingale," MAE 47 (1978):308-311.
• Utley, Francis Lee. "Dialogues, Debates, and Catechisms," in: Hartung, A. E. (Ed.). A Manual of Writngs in Middle English, New Haven 1972:Vol. 3, 720-721..