Fathers of English Literature

Fathers of English Literature

1.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry

2.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language

3.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance

4.Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National
Poet

5.Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.

6.Venerable Bede = The Father of English History

7.King Alfred the Great = The Father of
English Prose

8.Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy

9.Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer

10.Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)

11.Edmund Spenser = The Child of
Renaissance

12.Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation

13.Gutenberg = The Father of Printing

14.William Caxton = Father of English
Press

15.Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay

16.John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation

17.Christopher Marlowe = The Father of
English Tragedy

18.William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon

19.William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama

20.William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon

21.William Shakespeare = The Bard

22.Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire
(Scotland)

23.Robert Burns = The National Poet of
Scotland

24.Robert Burns = Rabbie

25.Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet

26.William Dunber = The Chaucer of
Scotland

27.John Dryden = Father of English
criticism

28.William of Newbury = Father of
Historical Criticism

29.John Donne = Poet of love

30.John Donne = Metaphysical poet

31.John Milton = Epic poet

32.John Milton = The great master of
verse

33.John Milton = Lady of the Christ College

34.John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party

35.John Milton = Master of the Grand style

36.John Milton = The Blind Poet of England

37.Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet

38.William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature

39.William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature

40.William Wordsworth = The Poet of
Nature

41.William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet

42.William Wordsworth = Poet of
Childhood

43.William Wordsworth = Egotistical Sublime

44.Samuel Taylor Coleridge = The Poet of Supernaturalism

45.Samuel Taylor Coleridge = Opium Eater

46.Coleridge & Wordsworth = The Father of Romanticism

47.Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey = Lake Poets

48.Lord Byron = The Rebel Poet

49.Percy Bysshe Shelley = The
Revolutionary Poet

50.Percy Bysshe Shelley = Poet of hope and regeneration

51.John Keats = Poet of Beauty

52.William Blake = The Mystic Poet

53.John Keats = Chameleon Poet

54.Lord Alfred Tennyson = The Representative of the Victorian Era

55.George Bernard Shaw = The greatest
modern dramatist

56.George Bernard Shaw = The Iconoclast

57.Jane Austen = Anti-romantic in
Romantic age

58.Lindley Murray = Father of English
Grammar

59.James Joyce = Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel

60.Edgar Allen Poe = Father of English
Mystery play

61.Edgar Allen Poe = The Father of English Short Story

62.Henry Fielding = The Father of English Novel

63.Samuel Johnson = Father of English
one Act Play

64.Sigmund Freud = A great Psycho-
analyst

65.Robert Frost = The Poet of Terror

66.Francesco Petrarch = The Father of
Sonnet (Italian)

67.Francesco Petrarch = The Father of Humanism

68.Sir Thomas Wyatt = The Father of
English Sonnet

69.Henry Louis Vivian Derozio = The
Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet

70.William Hazlitt = Critic’s Critic

71.Charles Lamb = The Essay of Elia

72.Arthur Miller = Mulk Raj Anand of
America

73.Addison = The voice of humanist
Puritanism

74.Emerson = The Seneca of America

75.Mother Teresa = The Boon of Heaven

76.Thomas Nash = Young Juvenile

77.Thomas Decker = Fore-runner of
Humorist

78.Homer = The Father of Epic Poetry

79.Homer = The Blind Poet

80.Henrick Ibsen = Father of Modern
theatre

81.Rabindranath Tagore = Indian National Poet

82.Nissim Ezekiel = The Father of Indian English Poetry