When this project first launched, the Times described its viewers as “strapholders”. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this project first launched in 1986, which has displayed works like the anonymous “I saw a Peacock with a fiery tail” and Thomas Wyatt’s “Tagus Farewell” on a transport system.
ANSWER: Poems on the Underground [or POTU]
[10m] One poster produced for Poems on the Underground featured this poet’s lines “Great was our joy… To travel by the Underground all day”. In 1973 this Poet Laureate wrote and narrated poems for the documentary Metro-Land.
ANSWER: Sir John Betjeman
[10e] Among the poems selected to be posted on the Underground was Seamus Heaney’s translation of this Anglo-Saxon epic, whose protagonist kills the monstrous Grendel by tearing off his arm.
ANSWER: Beowulf