FOUNDERS AND FATHERS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

 FOUNDERS AND FATHERS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

1.Geoffrey Chaucer : The Father of English Literature

2.Geoffrey Chaucer : The Father of English Poetry
3.Geoffrey Chaucer : The Father of English Language
4.Geoffrey Chaucer : The Morning Star of the Renaissance
5.Geoffrey Chaucer : The First National Poet
6.Venerable Bede : The Father of English Learning.
7.Venerable Bede : The Father of English History
8.King Alfred the Great : The Father of English Prose
9.Aeschylus : The Father of Tragedy
10.Nicholas Udall : The First English Comedy Writer (‘Ralph Roister Doister’)
11.Edmund Spenser : The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
12.Edmund Spenser : The Child of Renaissance
13.Edmund Spenser : The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
14.Gutenberg : The Father of Printing
15.William Caxton : Father of English Press
16.Francis Bacon : The Father of English Essay
17.John Wycliffe : The Morning Star of the Reformation
18.Christopher Marlowe : The Father of English Tragedy
19.William Shakespeare : Bard of Avon
20.William Shakespeare : The Father of English Drama
21.William Shakespeare : Sweet Swan of Avon
22.William Shakespeare : The Bard
23.Robert Burns : The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
24.Robert Burns : The National Poet of Scotland
25.Robert Burns : Rabbie
26.Robert Burns : The Ploughman Poet
27.William Dunber : The Chaucer of Scotland
28.John Dryden : Father of English criticism
29.William of Newbury : Father of Historical Criticism
30.John Donne : Poet of love
31.John Donne : Metaphysical poet, Founder of Metaphysical Poetry
32.John Milton : Epic poet
33.John Milton : The great master of verse
34.John Milton : Lady of the Christ College
35.John Milton : Poet of the Devil’s Party
36.John Milton : Master of the Grand style
38.John Milton : The Blind Poet of England
39.Alexander Pope : Mock heroic poet
40.William Wordsworth : The Worshipper of Nature
41.William Wordsworth : The High Priest of Nature
42.William Wordsworth : The Poet of Nature
43.William Wordsworth : The Lake Poet
44.William Wordsworth : Poet of Childhood
45.William Wordsworth : Egotistical Sublime
46.Samuel Taylor Coleridge : The Poet of Supernaturalism
47.Samuel Taylor Coleridge : Opium Eater
48.Coleridge & Wordsworth : The Father of Romanticism
49.Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey : Lake Poets
50.Lord Byron : The Rebel Poet
51.Percy Bysshe Shelley : The Revolutionary Poet
52.Percy Bysshe Shelley : Poet of hope and
regeneration
53.John Keats : Poet of Beauty
54.William Blake : The Mystic Poet
55.John Keats : Chameleon Poet
56.Lord Alfred Tennyson : The Representative of the Victorian Era
57.George Bernard Shaw : The greatest modern dramatist
58.George Bernard Shaw : The Iconoclast
59.Jane Austen : Anti-romantic in Romantic age
60.Lindley Murray : Father of English Grammar
61.James Joyce : Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel
62.Edgar Allen Poe : Father of English Mystery play
63.Edgar Allen Poe : The Father of English Short Story
64.Henry Fielding : The Father of English Novel
65.Samuel Johnson : Father of English one Act Play
66.Sigmund Freud : A great Psycho-analyst
67.Robert Frost : The Poet of Terror
68.Francesco Petrarch : The Father of Sonnet (Italian)
69.Francesco Petrarch : The Father of Humanism
70.Sir Thomas Wyatt : The Father of English Sonnet
71.Henry Louis Vivian Derozio : The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet
72.William Hazlitt : Critic’s Critic
73.Charles Lamb : The Essay of Elia
74.Arthur Miller : Mulk Raj Anand of America
75.Addison : The voice of humanist Puritanism
76.Emerson : The Seneca of America
77.Mother Teresa : The Boon of Heaven
78.Thomas Nash : Young Juvenile
79.Thomas Decker : Fore-runner of Humorist
80.Homer : The Father of Epic Poetry
81.Homer : The Blind Poet
82.Henrick Ibsen : Father of Modern theatre
83.Rabindranath Tagore : Indian National Poet
84.Nissim Ezekiel : The Father of Indian English Poetr