Scientific American

Hidden copy of the oldest known poem in the English language leaves researchers ‘speechless’

Researchers discovered the copy of the 1,300-year-old poem lurking inside a historical text in an Italian library ...

Irish researchers find oldest English-language poem in forgotten medieval book in Rome

Researchers in Ireland marveled at their computer screen as they flipped through the digitized pages of a medieval book ...

Oldest surviving English poem discovered in Rome

The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library.
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First poem ever written in English 1,300 years ago found hidden inside library in Rome

Before English became the language of Shakespeare, empire, science, pop songs, and the lingua franca of the world, it was the ...
Gulf TodayOpinion

Oldest English poem found in medieval manuscript

Researchers in Ireland have unearthed what is believed to be the oldest surviving English poem, discovered within the pages ...

Medieval manuscript found in Rome contains oldest surviving English poem: What’s in the 1300-yo poem?

A lost medieval manuscript containing one of the earliest English poems, Caedmon's Hymn, has been rediscovered in a Roman ...

Lost 9th-century manuscript containing earliest English poem found in a Rome library

Researchers find rare and lost copy of oldest known poem in English ...
Smithsonian Magazine

These 17th-Century Poems Painted Pictures on the Page—and Defied the Church of England’s Rejection of Religious Images

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.