BOUTERWEK, K.W. (HGB.)

Gütersloh bei C. Bertelsmann. 1854. 353+393 S.Sider. Halbleder. Mit Stempel (stamp): Frederiksborg Statsskole. Guter Zustand. Ein schönes Eksemplar. CCXXXVIII+353 pp. + XXIV+393 pp. Clean & unmarked; thiese vols were bound inro half black leather with marbled sides, Condition: Very Good for Age. Cædmon (fl. c. 657 - 684) is the earliest English poet whose name is known. 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 8th-century historian Bede. He later became a zealous monk and an accomplished and inspirational Christian poet. Cædmon is one of twelve Anglo-Saxon poets identified in mediaeval sources, and one of only three of these for whom both roughly contemporary biographical information and examples of literary output have survived. Bouterwek: Karl Wilhelm B., Schulmann und Germanist, geb. 30. Aug. 1809 zu Tarnowitz in Schlesien, wo sein Vater ? Bruder des Prof. Fr. Ludw. B. in Göttingen - Inspector einer Hütte war, - 22. Dec. 1868 zu Elberfeld. TEXT in GERMAN.