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Earliest English poet, herdsman who became a devoted monk [19] Hereswitha: Deira, Northumbria sister of Hilda of Whitby, retired to Gaul to lead religious life. 3 September [20] Begu: Hackness, Northumbria died 690 Nun at Whitby, witnessed miracle of Hilda. 31 October [21] The Two Ewalds: Northumbria died 695
Poems, by that most famous wit, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Ed. Edward Phillips, 1656, p. xix. Second half of "To William Drummond of Hawthornden", p. xx. Mary Oxlie or Oxley (fl. 1616) was a 17th-century Scottish or Northumbrian poet, known for one surviving published composition, a "literary eulogy or friendship poem". [1]
Cædmon (/ ˈ k æ d m ən, ˈ k æ d m ɒ n /; fl. c. 657–684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. [1] A Northumbrian cowherd who cared for the animals at the double monastery of Streonæshalch (now known as Whitby Abbey) during the abbacy of St. Hilda, he was originally ignorant of "the art of song" but learned to compose one night in the course of a dream, according to the ...
Alcuin of York (/ ˈ æ l k w ɪ n /; [1] Latin: Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus; c. 735 – 19 May 804) – also called Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin – was a scholar, clergyman, poet, and teacher from York, Northumbria. He was born around 735 and became the student of Archbishop Ecgbert at York.
Cædmon (fl. 7th c.), earliest Northumbrian poet known by name; Maoilios Caimbeul (born 1944), Scots poet and children's writer in Gaelic; Scott Cairns (born 1954), US poet, memoirist and essayist; Alison Calder, Canadian poet and educator; Angus Calder (1942–2008), Scots poet, academic and educator
The Venerable Bede (673–735) is the most famous author of the Anglo-Saxon Period, and a native of Northumbria. His Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( Ecclesiastical History of the English People , completed in 731) has become both a template for later historians and a crucial historical account in its own right, [ 100 ] and much of it ...
Explore daily insights on the USA TODAY crossword puzzle by Sally Hoelscher. ... Black Poetry Day – OCT. 17 – is a day designated to honor Black poets. The date was chosen because it is the ...
William George Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong (1810–1900), Tyneside industrialist who was the effective founder of the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing empire; Emerson Muschamp Bainbridge (1817–1892), founder of Bainbridge Department Store in Newcastle upon Tyne, the first such store in the world (still the largest John Lewis outside London)