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In Dr. Chenovick's words, “The article focuses on an intriguing moment in the seventeenth-century commonplace book of the royalist prisoner John Gibson in which a small interleaved emblem of a nightingale frames an exchange of poems between Gibson (who laments his exile from his ‘Grove’) and a friend who tries to console him with Christian commonplaces. The manuscript as a whole is full of intriguing interactions between text and images (both manuscript drawings and prints that have been cut and pasted in), but I argue that this particular example offers especially interesting insights into the embodied and dialogic aspects of seventeenth-century strategies of consolation—and that it does so in part through its invocations of birds and birdsong.”

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