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I had a hard time with Beowulf in HS but dug it - thankfully Heaney's translation is MUCH better - he's prolly my fave contemporary poet.
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Back before the PC Police got into education (and of course being at a private school where we had chapel with wine communion every Wednesday
) my 9th grade English teach bought us Mead to taste while reading Beowulf. I think that's the ONLY way most us made it through that book. Maybe I'd like it more now, but back then it was nothing but pure torture :angry: