Bringing Back Beowulf by Peter Leyland
Bringing Back Beowulf* A recent blog on AuthorsElectric asked whether anything we write is ever wasted? and this coincided with another one referring to Anglo-Saxon poetry.** I had once sent articles to the Times Educational Supplement when they were asking for "Best and Worst" pieces for their magazine. I had sent them "Best and Worst Lessons", and "Best and Worst School Trips" but they had been rejected. I had written one about Assemblies but I was getting so fed up with the TES’s negative responses that I filed it away in my ‘Articles’ folder, doubting that it would ever see the light of day. The two Authors Electric blogs reminded me of this unpublished piece. I had really enjoyed writing it so here goes... It was the mid-eighties, before SATs, when teachers were free to follow their own ideas. I was at ...