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University of Cambridge: Virgil has the edge on Shakespeare in helping students to love literature

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Students who study Virgil’s Aeneid at school find it significantly more engaging than other ‘high-prestige’ literature, even though they only learn tiny fragments of the text, research suggests. Ultimately, if this is high-level poetry that students actually like, perhaps we ought to be finding ways to give them the chance to do itFrances FosterThe finding […]