The poet who composed the oldest surviving English poem was apparently illiterate, unmusical, and a common cowherd from Whitby, North Yorkshire, in what is now the U.K. And we now have the original ...

Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking inside a historical text in an Italian library There’s no record of Caedmon jotting the poem down himself—but records of it can be ...