This paper begins by addressing a seeming redundancy in Coedmon's Hymn whereby creation appears to be described twice, both "then" and "afterwards". The paper argues a three-part narrative of creation ...

Long before pens met parchment in monasteries, an illiterate herdsman named Caedmon changed the course of English literature. Inspired by a divine dream, he composed the first known Christian hymn in ...

On this day we celebrate the feast of St. Cædmon, "the father of English Sacred Song. Fell asleep hard by, 680." Cædmon was an old man who lived at St. Hilda's monastery at Whitby. When a beer party ...

The story of Caedmon, the first documented poet to compose in the English language in the late sixth century, is about an ordinary man whom God took aside from his busy everyday activity and from his ...

Caedmon: Recreating the Moment of InspirationIt's been 50 years since two young women chased down poet Dylan Thomas and persuaded him to put his voice on record. The formation of Caedmon Records led ...