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Many people in the literary would say that British literature has lost its 【B1】 nowadays. Many others 【B2】 with this opinion. But what is not 【B3】 doubt is that a lot of the exciting new literature published in Britain in recent years 【B4】 been written by people from outside Britain. Since 1981, nine of the fourteen winners of the Booker Prize, an important prize 【B5】 a work of fiction, were writers from 【B6】 British colonies like India. 【B7】 many of the best ’’serious’’ British writers manage to be popular as well as pro found, the vast 【B8】 of the books could not be classified as ’’serious’’ literature. Britain is the home of 【B9】 might be called ’’middlebrow’’ literature. (That is, mid-way between serious and popular fiction) Many British authors write novels 【B10】 as ’’romances’’ , one of the middlebrow types. The British publisher which sells more books than any other is Mills & Boon, 【B11】 books are exclusively 【B12】 this type. Poetry at the end or the twentieth century is 【B13】 popular in Britain after it stopped being the normal 【B14】 of literary self-expression 200 years ago. Books for poetry sell 【B15】 comparatively large numbers. Their sales are not 【B16】 as large as sales of novels, but they are large 【B17】 for a few small publishers to 【B18】 entirely on publishing poetry. Many of these poems are not academics and they are 【B19】 to non-specialists. Perhaps the ’’pop’’ idiom and the easy 【B20】 of sound recording have made more people comfortable with spoken verse.