Caedmon biography
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Caedmon biography
Life of Caedmon
Caedmon is the earliest English poet known to us by name. What little we know of Caedmon, the Anglo-Saxon Milton, as he is properly called, is taken from Bede’s account [Ecclesiastical History, IV, xxiv.] of the Abbess Hilda and of her monastery at Whitby.
Here is a free and condensed translation of Bede’s story:
In the monastery of the Abbess Hilda, there was a brother distinguished by God’s grace for his ability to write poems about goodness and religion. Whatever Sacred Scripture was translated to him (because he couldn’t read) he quickly reproduced in poetic form of great sweetness and beauty.
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None of the English poets could compare to him, because he did not learn the art of song from men, nor did he sing through the arts of men. Rather, he received all of his poetry as a free gift from God, and as a result, he never wrote vain or worldly poetry.
He had lived as a layman until he was of mature age and had never learned any poetry.
Indeed, he was so ignorant o