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7. As someone who enjoys both Duffy and Browning ....

Fri Feb 8, 2013, 04:58 PM

Feb 2013

.... but who, even with a degree in English and thirty years experience teaching the subject, still finds the nuances of Mr. Browning challenging, I think there's room for both.

There's a wealth of well-written twentieth and early 21st century writing which I think would make a much more congenial portal into literature than, for example, "Jack of Newbury," an unbelievable piece of prose mediocrity from the 16th century which I remember from the A-Level syllabus in the bad old days. Better than Eliot? Better than Orwell? Better than Pinter?

I think not.

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Glad to hear this. LeftishBrit Feb 2013 #1

I'd forgotten it was Gove's turn to do a U-turn this week. non sociopath skin Feb 2013 #2

At least we have had the U-turn before too much money has been wasted fedsron2us Feb 2013 #4

Also out today - national curriculum changes muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #3

Sounds like "Back to the Fifties" to me. non sociopath skin Feb 2013 #5

Agree up to a point ... Nihil Feb 2013 #6

As someone who enjoys both Duffy and Browning .... non sociopath skin Feb 2013 #7

Agree - I enjoy both and think there is room for both! LeftishBrit Feb 2013 #9

That's what history teachers think - including Gove's own adviser, who was a Tory candidate muriel_volestrangler Feb 2013 #8