Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Caedmon
Books by Caedmon
Caedmon's Hymn
Poetry
History
Religion
Dream
God
Poetry
Inspiration
Christian
Old English
Anglo-Saxon
Hymn
Alliteration
Religious Poetry
Early English Literature
Streonæshalch
Monastery
Herdsman
Cædmon was an Anglo-Saxon herdsman attached to the double monastery of Streonæshalch (657–681). Originally ignorant of the art of song, Cædmon learned to compose one night in the course of a dream. Cædmon’s only known surviving work is Cædmon’s Hymn,...