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Bird Language In T.H. White’S The Sword In The Stone, Marie Nelson
Bird Language In T.H. White’S The Sword In The Stone, Marie Nelson
Mythlore: A Journal of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, and Mythopoeic Literature
Analyzes the talking birds in The Sword in the Stone for what they show about White’s knowledge of language. Notes the birds use “dialects appropriate to their social levels” and “speak, at various times, language characteristic of different stages in the origin of bird language.”