Cambridge final year exam includes a comparison between Amy Winehouse’s lyrics: “Love is a losing game/One I wish I never played/Oh, what a mess we made/And now the final frame/Love is a losing game,” and the poetry of Sir Walter Raleigh: “But true love is a durable fire/In the mind ever burning/Never sick, never old, never dead/From itself never turning.” The University claims that it’s up on the 21st century. I don’t think that this is a sign of dumbing down, as some have suggested. There is something to be said for living in the present while being fully aware of the past. Cambridge is right to connect the two. For more appreciation of English poetry, the BBC Radio4 had a great series, A Map of British Poetry, presented by Andrew Motion.