It's been 50 years since two young women chased down poet Dylan Thomas and convinced him to put his voice on record. The formation of Caedmon Records led to today's $2-billion audiobook industry.

Writer David Almond discusses Caedmon, the earliest English poet whose name is known, said to be an illiterate herdsman who began to write it during a dream. Show more The writer David Almond ...

English poetry began with a vision. It started with the holy trance of a 7th-century figure called Caedmon, an illiterate herdsman, who now stands at the top of the literary tradition as the ...

They named their label after an Old English poet, an 8th-century cowherd named Caedmon, and adopted the slogan “A Third Dimension for the Printed Page,” announcing their belief that a spoken ...

Caedmon releases, Businesswoman Mantell estimates, have reached an audience of 2,000,000—many of them “people who haven’t picked up a book of poetry since they left school.

In a sense, Caedmon brought the idea of oral interpretation of poetry, short stories and novels from the Beatnik dens of Greenwich Village into middle-class living rooms.

Orpheus, like Caedmon, is a myth of poetry’s origins. In Ovid’s telling, Orpheus is a gifted musician; he descends into Hades to beg for the return of his beloved wife, ...

It's been 50 years since two young women chased down poet Dylan Thomas and convinced him to put his voice on record. The formation of Caedmon Records led to today's $2-billion audiobook industry.

Barbara Holdridge, a pioneer for spoken-word recordings, dies at 95. In 1952, she and her friend Marianne Mantell founded Caedmon Records, putting out LP records of poets and authors reading their ...