FOUNDERS AND FATHERS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Geoffrey Chaucer
= The Father of English Literature
= The Father of English Poetry
= The Father of English Language
= The Morning Star of the Renaissance
= The First National Poet

Venerable Bede
= The Father of English Learning.
 = The Father of English History

King Alfred the Great
= The Father of English Prose

Aeschylus 
= The Father of Tragedy

Nicholas Udall
= The First English Comedy Writer

11.Edmund Spenser 
= The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
= The Child of Renaissance
= 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
= The Father of English Drama
= Sweet Swan of Avon
= The Bard

Robert Burns
= The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
= The National Poet of Scotland
= Rabbie
= The Ploughman Poet

William Dunber 
= The Chaucer of Scotland

John Dryden
 = Father of English criticism

William of Newbury
= Father of Historical Criticism

John Donne
= Poet of love
= Metaphysical poet

John Milton
= Epic poet
 = The great master of verse

John Milton 
= Lady of the Christ College
= Poet of the Devil’s Party
= Master of the Grand style
= The Blind Poet of England

Alexander Pope
= Mock heroic poet

William Wordsworth 
= The Worshipper of Nature
= The High Priest of Nature
= The Poet of Nature
= The Lake Poet
= Poet of Childhood
= Egotistical Sublime

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
= The Poet of Supernaturalism

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 
= Opium Eater

Coleridge & Wordsworth 
= The Father of Romanticism

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey 
= Lake Poets

Lord Byron 
= The Rebel Poet

Percy Bysshe Shelley 
= The Revolutionary Poet
= Poet of hope and regeneration

John Keats 
= Poet of Beauty

William Blake 
= The Mystic Poet

John Keats 
= Chameleon Poet

Lord Alfred Tennyson 
= The Representative of the Victorian Era

George Bernard Shaw 
= The greatest modern dramatist
= The Iconoclast

Jane Austen
= Anti-romantic in Romantic age

Lindley Murray
= Father of English Grammar

ames Joyce 
= Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel

Edgar Allen Poe 
= Father of English Mystery play
= The Father of English Short Story

Henry Fielding 
= The Father of English Novel

Samuel Johnson 
= Father of English one Act Play

Sigmund Freud 
= A great Psycho-analyst

Robert Frost
= The Poet of Terror

Francesco Petrarch
= The Father of Sonnet (Italian)

Francesco Petrarch 
= The Father of Humanism

Sir Thomas Wyatt 
= The Father of English Sonnet

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

.William Hazlitt
 = Critic’s Critic

Charles Lamb 
= The Essay of Elia

Arthur Miller 
= Mulk Raj Anand of America

.Addison 
= The voice of humanist Puritanism

Emerson 
= The Seneca of America

.Mother Teresa 
= The Boon of Heaven

Thomas Nash 
= Young Juvenile

Thomas Decker 
= Fore-runner of Humorist

Homer 
= The Father of Epic Poetry
 = The Blind Poet

Henrick Ibsen 
= Father of Modern theatre

Rabindranath Tagore 
= Indian National Poet

Nissim Ezekiel 
= The Father of Indian English Poet