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Who wrote Anglo-Saxon poetry?

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Cædmon is the earliest known English poet. Although the body of his work has been lost, the school of Cædmon is responsible for poetic narrative versions of biblical stories, the most dramatic of which is probably Genesis B. Cynewulf , a later poet, signed the poems Elene, Juliana, and The Fates of the Apostles ; no more is known of him. The finest poem of the school of Cynewulf is The Dream of the Rood, the first known example of the dream vision, a genre later popular in Middle English literature .

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