Caedmon (flourished 658–680) was the first Old English Christian poet, whose fragmentary hymn to the creation remains a symbol of the adaptation of the aristocratic-heroic Anglo-Saxon verse tradition to the expression of Christian themes.

2015年3月27日 · Caedmon is recognised as the first English poet composing his Hymn in the 7th century at Whitby Abbey, as told by Bede in his Ecclesiastical History of the English people

'Caedmon's Hymn' was sung by a lay worker, Caedmon, from the estate of the monastery of Whitby when the voice of God came to him.

Caedmon's Hymn. By Caedmon. Translated By Roy M. Liuzza. Caedmon's Hymn (2 versions) Share. Now let us praise Heaven-Kingdom's guardian, the Maker's might and his mind's thoughts, the work of the glory-father—of every wonder, eternal Lord. He established a beginning.

Much like Sappho, another poet of the ancient world whose works are almost entirely lost, Caedmon exists for us now almost more as a legend than as an actual writer; yet even so, his importance to English literary history cannot be denied.

2023年6月23日 · Caedmon, also spelled as Cædmon, was an Anglo-Saxon poet who lived in the seventh century. He is considered the first recorded English poet, and his story is an important part of early English literature.

The earliest known text of an English poem is "Caedmon's Hymn," a short religious work created by a man who lived and worked as a simple herdsman at Whitby Abbey in the northeast of England in the late 7th century.

Caedmon manuscript, Old English scriptural paraphrases copied about 1000, given in 1651 to the scholar Franciscus Junius by Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh and now in the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

Caedmon St. Caedmon (d. c. 680) is the first known poet of the vernacular in English. He is thought to have been a Celt, who was already old at the time he came to Whitby to tend the animals. Too shy to join in the communal singing after …

2012年10月22日 · St. Caedmon of Whitby Our venerable and God-bearing Father Cædmon is the first English poet whose name is known. The author of the first recorded poem in English, he is known as the Father of English Poetry .