Amy Winehouse may be an utter train wreck as an individual, but there's no denying she is a true talent. Still, this seems a bit over the top:

As spoken verse, it may scan a little awkwardly, and the rhymes could be considered somewhat laboured. But Amy Winehouse might argue that her lyrics were never intended to be scrutinised by the poetry brains of Cambridge University.

To the surprise of final-year English literature students, when they opened their practical criticism exam they found the troubled singer's work pitted against Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and Sir Walter Raleigh for literary analysis.

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