Cædmon

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Cædmon is the earliest English poet whose name is known. He was a Northumbrian cowherd who cared for animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch during the abbacy of Hilda. According to the 8th-century Christian historian and saint Bede, he learned to compose poetry one night in a dream. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished Christian poet. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism.