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
  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
  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
  37. John Milton = The Blind Poet of England
  38. Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet
  39. William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature
  40. William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature
  41. William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature
  42. William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet