Summary: book "Britain for Learners of English", James O'Driscoll

Poetry
Drama
Prose
14
th
century
Geoffrey Chaucer
16
th
century
William Shakespeare
17
th
century
John Donne John Milton
18
th
century
Alexander Pope
19
th
century
William Wordsworth Charles Dickens George Eliot Jane Austen
20
th
century
W.B. Years TS. Eliot
Seamus Heaney Samuel Becket Harold Pinter James Joyce DH. Lawrence William Golding
The nation’s favourite books
The top ten most favourite books in Britain are
1. Lord of the Rings (JR. R. Tolkien)
2. Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
3. His Dark Materials (Philip Pullman)
4. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (J. K. Rowling)
6. To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
7. Winnie the Pooh (AA. Milne)
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
9. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe (CS. Lewis)
10. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte. Geoffrey Chaucer is the father of poetry. He wrote the Canterbury Tales. He wrote in English rather than French or Latin.
As you can see I basically skipped a lot of information after summarizing the second chapter. It
literally beat the crap out of me. I freaking hate that chapter.
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