Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Discovered a Lost Copy of the Oldest English Poem, Composed by an Illiterate ...

This version of "Caedmon’s Hymn" shows how Old English evolved. It also features early use of a punctuation mark that readers ...

Lost Copy of the Oldest-Known English Poem Discovered in a Rome Library

The poet who composed the oldest surviving English poem was apparently illiterate, unmusical, and a common cowherd from ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These 17th-Century Poems Painted Pictures on the Page—and Defied the Church of England ...

George Herbert’s shaped poetry subtly pushed back against the iconoclasm of the English Reformation Vanessa Braganza - Historian, Harvard University George Herbert’s pictures aren’t just decorative.

New copy of earliest poem in English language discovered by researchers in Rome

An early ninth-century manuscript containing a text of the first known poem in the English language has been discovered in ...
The Atlantic

Platonic Poetry

ONE envies Mr. Harrison the many months of earnest study which must have gone to the making of his account of Platonism in English Poetry. 1 To walk familiarly, when one is young, with the ideal forms ...
Greek Reporter

9th-Century Manuscript Found in Rome Reveals First Known English Poem

Researchers discovered a medieval manuscript in Rome containing Caedmon’s Hymn, the first known poem in the English language.
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English poems in Shanghai metro trains

Shanghai commuters can sample British poetry on their way to work in the carriages along the metro. This is the first time the Shanghai metro has presented a foreign country's culture.