KEY LITERARY FIGURES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
Aeschylus = The Father of Greek Tragedy
Aristophanes = The Father of Greek Comedy
Homer = The Father of Epic Poetry
= The Blind Poet
Francesco Petrarch = The Father of Sonnet (Italian)
= The Father of Humanism
Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.
= The Father of English History
King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature
(called by Arnold)
= The Father of English Poetry
= The first poet to be buried in Westminister Abbey
(Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, is a place of pilgrimage for literature lovers. More than 100 poets and writers are buried or have memorials here.)
= The Morning Star of the Renaissance
= The First National Poet
John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation
Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer
Gutenberg = The Father of Printing
William Caxton = Father of English Press
Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
= The Child of Renaissance
=second father of English poetry
=English Virgil
= The Bridge between Renaissance & Reformation
Sir Thomas Wyatt = The Father of English Sonnet
Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay
Montaigne = Father of essays
Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy
Thomas Kyd = Father of Revenge Tragedy.
(English Language Day is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon
= The Father of English Drama
= Sweet Swan of Avon
= English Language Day
(English Language Day is celebrated on 23 April, the date traditionally observed as both the birthday and date of death of Shakespeare)
Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
= The National Poet of Scotland
= Rabbie
= The Ploughman Poet
Thomas Nash = Young Juvenile
Thomas Decker = Fore-runner of Humorist
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
John Milton = Epic poet
= The great master of verse
= 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 Blake = The Mystic Poet
William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature
= The High Priest of Nature
= The Poet of Nature
= The Lake Poet
= Poet of Childhood
-"Egotistical Sublime" is related to Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge = The Poet of Supernaturalism
= Opium Eater
-"willing suspension of disbelief" is related to Coleridge
Coleridge & Wordsworth = The Fathers 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
= Chameleon Poet
-"Negative Capability" is related to Keats.
Henry Fielding = Father of English Novel
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
James Joyce = Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel
Edgar Allen Poe
Edgar Allen Poe = Father of English Mystery play
=Father of detective stories
= The Father of English Short Story
= 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
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
Henrick Ibsen = Father of Modern theatre
Ravindranath Tagore
Rabindranath Tagore = Indian National Poet
Nissim Ezekiel = The Father of Indian English Poetry
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio = The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet
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