Culture
- The Aēdōn (Ancient Greek: Ὰηδών, "Nightingale") is a minor character in Aristophanes' 414 BC Attic comedy "The Birds".
- "The Owl and the Nightingale" (12th or 13th century) is a Middle English poem about an argument between these two birds.
- "A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square" was one of the most popular songs in Britain during World War 2
- John Keats's "Ode to a Nightingale" was described by Edmund Clarence Stedman as "one of our shorter English lyrics that still seems to me... the nearest to perfection, the one I would surrender last of all" and by Algernon Charles Swinburne as "one of the final masterpieces of human work in all time and for all ages".
- John Milton's sonnet "To the Nightingale" contrasts the symbolism of the nightingale as a bird for lovers, with the cuckoo as the bird that called when wives were unfaithful to (or "cuckolded") their husbands.
- The love of the nightingale for the rose is widely used, often metaphorically, in Persian literature.
- The beauty of the nightingale's song is a theme in Hans Christian Andersen's story "The Nightingale" from 1843.
- In The Bird of Shadows and the Sun-Bird, a fairy tale by Maud Margaret Key Statwell, a young girl wishes to become a nightingale.
- A nightingale is depicted on the reverse of the Croatian 1 kuna coin, minted since 1993.
- A recording of nightingale song is included, as directed by the score, in "The Pines of Janiculum", the third movement of Ottorino Respighi's 1924 symphonic poem "Pines of Rome" (Pini di Roma).
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