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Well actually it isn’t her exactly it is her work and in fact the university asks students in exam papers to compare the lyrics in her songs like “Love Is A losing Game” to that of the works by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and Raleigh. Well there is nothing to compare there really is there?

Some head honchos from academia had this to say:

A Cambridge University spokesman said: “The idea is to assess students’ abilities at dealing with unseen writings from across the field of English literature.

“As for choosing Amy Winehouse, why not? Cambridge dons live in the modern world and can appreciate talent from a myriad of different fields just like anyone else.”

Jonathan Bate, a professor in English and comparative literary studies at The University of Warwick, said: “Raleigh was like a celebrity figure of the day and his poems were set to music - they were the like the pop songs of the Elizabethan era - so perhaps it is quite a relevant comparison.”

Source [Daily Mail]

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