New Scientist

This book is essential reading before watching the new Odyssey film

Homer still matters, argues Adam Nicolson in The Mighty Dead, a great primer to Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of the ...

Taylor Swift Prevails in Poet’s Plagiarism Lawsuit, as Florida Judge Dismisses Case With Prejudice

Taylor Swift prevailed in a lawsuit contending she ripped off ideas from a Florida poet's work, as a judge threw the case out ...

My lost art of reading, and how I’m trying to reclaim it

Be honest. When was the last time you picked up a book, local or otherwise, purely for pleasure? asks the writer. Read more ...

I have spent the past 6 months reading hundreds of poems by young people – I was surprised to find hope, not despair

Young poets wrestled with loneliness, fractured families, violence and other challenges – but also showed an unwillingness to ...
People

Oldest Surviving English Poem Gets Discovered in Medieval Book in Rome by 'Speechless' Researchers

Researchers Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner traveled to view "Caedmon's Hymn" Lexi Lane is a weekend banking writer at PEOPLE. She first joined as a member of the PEOPLE App team in 2025. Her ...
Los Angeles Times

Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Scholars at Trinity College Dublin have identified the oldest surviving English poem, “Caedmon’s Hymn,” hidden in ...
The Boston Globe

Researchers stunned by a forgotten medieval book in Rome hiding the oldest English poem

ROME (AP) — The researchers in Ireland looked at their computer screen, marveling at a medieval book tracked down in a Roman library. They flipped through its digitized pages and found their ...
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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 What to know about Mackenzie Shirilla, the Ohio teen who killed her boyfriend and his friend in 100 mph crash No idea it was coming: ...
Artnet

Lost Copy of Earliest-Known English Poem Found in Roman Library

A previously unknown copy of the earliest surviving poem in the English language has been discovered in the National Central Library of Rome. The rediscovered manuscript is a version of Historia ...
The Conversation

We found a lost copy of the earliest surviving English poem in a medieval manuscript in Rome

Elisabetta Magnanti and Mark Faulkner with a copy of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People. Courtesy of the authors, CC BY-ND Some medieval texts have barely survived. Beowulf, the Old ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers Discovered a Lost Copy of the Oldest English Poem, Composed by an Illiterate Cowherd More Than 1,300 Years Ago

The page of the manuscript in Rome that contains “Caedmon’s Hymn” Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale “Vittorio Emanuele II” The English language’s oldest poem is “Caedmon ’s Hymn,” nine lines of ...