CAEDMON
CAEDMON
Caedmon
is one of the greatest Anglo- Saxon poets. He is known as the first maker of
English verse. He was a simple and unlettered man. He was an employee in a
monastery at Whitby in Yorkshire. He was inspired to sing about the beginning
of created things. He became a monk. Though he was not able to read, The Bible
was read to him. After that he turned those passages that appealed to him into
verse. These stories in verse are known as Caedmon’s Paraphrases. These were
written about A.D. 670. Due to his creative contribution, Caedmon became very
famous because these poems were carried from monastery to monastery. It may be
said that Caedmon founded a new school of religious poetry.
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