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Why is it shocking that kids get English A Level without reading Dickens, Hardy or even Shakespeare? People can have a very deep understanding of Literature without having read these authors. Why not make it compulsory to study JG Ballard? Or Martin Amis etc? Who decides that some writers are...

There are loads of excellent contemporary writers from the UK and the USA. But Gove doesn't like modern literature, or anything foreign, or of politics that he doesn't agree with. So pre 20th Century British writers it is. The arrogance of the man, that he 'knows what's best'...it's just mind...