Classic English literature should remain central to the teaching of English, a study suggests.
A survey of thousands of teachers, pupils, parents, writers and advisers found great support for the classics.
Poet Laureate Andrew Motion said it was a "deep crime" never to have read key Shakespeare works, Paradise Lost or Great Expectations.
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Shakespeare - The complete works