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Caedmon

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Caedmon (lived c. 660–670)

Earliest known English Christian poet. According to the Northumbrian historian Bede, when Caedmon was a cowherd at the monastery of Whitby, he was commanded to sing by a stranger in a dream, and on waking produced a hymn on the Creation. The poem is preserved in some manuscripts. Caedmon became a monk and may have composed other religious poems.



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One night Caedmon crept away as usual, and went "out of the house where the entertainment was, to the stable, where he had to take care of the horses that night.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
Ballads, 'Beowulf,' Caedmon, Bede (Latin prose), Cynewulf.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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