ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Today is the feast day of Caedmon, the first known English poet. As well as being the first named poet in the English literary tradition, he is also a significant figure in the history of people who hate singing in public, people who develop new talents later in life, and of cowherds.

Detailed explanation-2: -Beowulf is the oldest surviving Germanic epic and the longest Old English poem; it was likely composed between 700 and 750.

Detailed explanation-3: -Caedmon, (flourished 658–680), first Old English Christian poet, whose fragmentary hymn to the creation remains a symbol of the adaptation of the aristocratic-heroic Anglo-Saxon verse tradition to the expression of Christian themes.