Important Facts II Fathers & Founders of English Literature

 IMPORTANT FACTS

Fathers & Founders of English Literature

1	Father of English Poetry	Geoffrey Chaucer
2	Father of English Novel	Henry Fielding / Samuel Richardson
3	Poet’s Poet / The Child of Renaissance	Edmund Spenser
4	English Epic Poet	John Milton
5	Famous Mock Heroic Poet	Alexander Pope
6	Poet of Nature	William Wordsworth
7	Poet of Beauty	John Keats
8	Rebel Poet	Lord Byron
9	Poet of Skylark and Winds	P.B. Shelley
10	Poet of Supernatural	S. T. Coleridge
11	Father of Modern English Literature	G.B. Shaw
12	Most Translated Author of the World	V. I. Lenin
13	Bard of Avon	William Shakespeare
14	Poet of Love/ Metaphysical Poet	John Donne
15	Father of English Criticism	John Dryden
16	Father of Romanticism	Coleridge & Wordsworth
17	First Sonneteer in English Literature	Sir Thomas Wyatt
18	Father of English Tragedy	Christopher Marlowe
19	Father of English Essay	Francis Bacon
20	Prince of English Essay	Charles Lamb
21	Most Popular Periodical Essayists	Richard Steele and Joseph Addison
22	The Greatest Modern Dramatist	George Bernard Shaw
23	The Father of English Prose	King Alfred the Great
24	The Father of Tragedy	Aeschylus
25	The First English Comedy Writer	Nicholas Udall
26	The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation	Edmund Spenser
27	The Father of Printing	Gutenberg
28	Father of English Press	William Caxton
29	The Father of English Essay	Francis Bacon
30	The Morning Star of the Reformation	John Wycliffe
31	The Father of English Drama	William Shakespeare
32	Sweet Swan of Avon	William Shakespeare
33	The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)	Robert Burns
34	The National Poet of Scotland	Robert Burns
35	The Ploughman Poet	Robert Burns
36	Father of English criticism	John Dryden
37	Father of Historical Criticism	William of Newbury
38	Poet of love	John Donne
39	Pioneer of Metaphysical Poetry	John Donne
40	Lady of the Christ College	John Milton
41	Poet of the Devil’s Party	John Milton
42	Master of the Grand style	John Milton
43	The Blind Poet of England	John Milton
44	Poet of Nature	William Wordsworth
45	Poet of Childhood	William Wordsworth
46	Lake Poets	Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
47	The Revolutionary Poet	Percy Bysshe Shelley
48	Poet of Beauty	John Keats
49	Chameleon Poet	John Keats
50	The Mystic Poet	William Blake
51	The Representative of the Victorian Era	Lord Alfred Tennyson
52	Anti-romantic in Romantic age	Jane Austen
53	Father of English Grammar	Lindley Murray
54	Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel	James Joyce
55	Father of English Mystery play	Edgar Allen Poe
56	The Father of English Short Story	Edgar Allen Poe
57	Father of English one Act Play	Samuel Johnson
58	The Poet of Terror	Robert Frost
59	The Father of Sonnet (Italian)	Francesco Petrarch
60	The Father of Humanism	Francesco Petrarch
61	The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet	Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
62	Critic’s Critic	William Hazlitt
63	Prince of English Essay	Charles Lamb
64	Mulk Raj Anand of America	Arthur Miller
65	The voice of humanist Puritanism	Addison
66	The Seneca of America	Emerson
67	Young Juvenile	Thomas Nash
68	The Father of Epic Poetry	Homer, a Blind Greek Poet
69	Father of Modern theatre	Henrick Ibsen