FOUNDERS AND FATHERS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

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1. FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY –CHAUCER
2. FATHER OF ENGLISH PROSE – KING ALFRED
3. FATHER OF ENGLISH NOVEL – HENRY FIELDING
4. FATHER OF ENGLISH MODERN PROSE – BACON
5. FATHER OF MODERN LINGUISTICS – BLOOMSFIELD
6. FATHER OF ENGLISH ESSAYS – BACON
7. FATHER OF ESSAYS – MONTAIGNE
8. FATHER OF AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM – EMERSON
9. FATHER OF HISTORICAL NOVEL – SIR WALTER SCOTT
10. FATHER OF REVENGE TRAGEDY – THOMAS KYD
11. FATHER OF SECOND ENGLISH POETS – EDMUND SPENSER
12. PRINCE OF ENGLISH ESSAYIST – CHARLES LAMB
13. POETS POET – SPENSER
14. CRITICS CRITIC – HAZLITT
15. THE FOUNDER OF KNIGHT SCHOOL OF POETRY – MARLOWE
16. THE FOUNDER OF METAPHYSICAL SCHOOL OF POETRY – JOHN DONNE
17. THE FOUNDER OF LAKE SCHOOL OF POETRY – WORDSWORTH
18. THE FOUNDER OF SAITANIK SCHOOL OF POETRY – LORD BYRON
19. THE FOUNDER OF CHAUCER SOCIETY – FURNIVALL
20. THE FOUNDER OF SHAKESPEAREAN SOCEITY – STEELE
21. THE FOUNDER OF SONNET – PETRARCH
22. THE FOUNDER OF’THE CLUB’ – JOHNSON
23. THE FOUNDER OF SOCIETY FOR PURE ENGLISH – ROBERT BRIDGES
24. FOUNDER OF NEW SHAKESPEAREAN SOCIETY – FURNIVALL
25. FOUNDER OF THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY – BALEVATSKY
26. FOUNDER OF T.G. GRAMMAR – NOAM CHOMSKY
27. FOUNDER OF SHELLY SOCIETY – STEELE\
28. FOUNDER OF TOUCHSTONE METHOD – MATHEW ARNOLD
29. FOUNDER OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS – SIGMUND FREUD
30. FATHER OF PLAGIRIST – CHAUCER
31. FATHER OF PRE-RAPHELITE MOVEMENT – D.G. ROSSETTI
32. PRINCE OF PLAGIRIST – SHAKESPEARE
33. FATHER OF GOTHIC NOVELS – HORACE WALPOLE
34. FATHER OF ENGLISH DRAMA – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
35. MORNING STAR OF ENGLISH DRAMA – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
36. MORNING STAR OF REFORMATION – WYCLIFF
37. CHILD OF RENAISSANCE & REFORMATION – SPENSER
38. FOUNDER OF BRITISH SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS – J.R. FIRTH
39. FOUNDER OF PRAMASAMAJ – DEVENDRANATH TAGORE
40. AUTHORISED VERISON OF THE BIBLE- KING JAMES I
41. EXPONENTS OF TRAGIC COMEDY – SHAKESPEARE
42. EXPONENT OF EPISTOLARY NOVEL – SAMUEL RICHARDSON
43. EXPONENT OF SPRUNG RHYTHM – G.M. HOPKINS
44. EXPONENT OF SOCIAL ESSAYS – FRANCIS BACON
45. EXPONENT OF REGIONAL NOVELS – THOMAS HARDY
46. EXPONENT OF DOMESTIC NOVELS – JANE AUSTEN
47. EXPONENT OF DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE – ROBERT BROWNING
48. EXPONENT OF PRACTICAL CRITICISM – I.A. RICHARDS
49. FATHER OF ENGLISH CRITICISM – DRYDEN
50. FATHER OF AMERICAN POETRY – WILLIAM CULLER BRYANT
51. MOVEMENT OF POETS COINED – J.D. SCOTT
52. INTRODUCER OF BLANK VERSE – EARL OF SURREY
53. INTRODUCER OF FREE VERSE – WALT WHITMAN
54. INTRODUCER OF LIMARIC – EDWARD LEAR
55. FOUNDER OF ‘JOURNAL’ – SHELLEY
56. INTRODUCER OF SONNET – WYATT
57. STRUCTURALISM ASSOCIATED WITH – FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE
58. AMBIGUITY ASSOCIATED WITH – WILLIAM EMPSON
59. ARCHITYPE ASSOCIATED WITH – NORTHROP FRYE
60. LIBIDO & PSYCHO-ANALYSIS ASSOCIATED WITH – C.G. JUNG
61. THE BARD OF AVAN KNOWN AS – SHAKESPEARE
62. SAGE OF CONCORD – EMERSON
63. THE FIRST LEXICOGRAPHER – SAMUEL JOHNSON
64. INTRODUCER OF THE TERZA RHYMA(RIMA) – SHELLEY
65. INTRODUCER OF PRINTING PRESS IN ENGLAND – WILLIAM CAXTON
66. INVENTED OF PRINTING PRESS – JOHN GUTTENSBURG
67. THE WELL OF ENGLISH POETRY – CHAUCER
68. THE PRE-CURSORS OF ENGLISH NOVEL – ADDISON & STEELE
69. TWENTIETH CENTURY DRYDEN KNOWN AS – T.S. ELIOT
70. FOUNDER OF COCKNEY SCHOOL OF POETRY – HAZLITT
71. FOUNDER OF GRAVEYARD SCHOOL OF POETRY – THOMAS GRAY
72. THE ‘GENTLE’WRITER KNOWN AS – CHARLES LAMB
73. PROMINENT MEMBER OF ROYAL SOCIETY – JOHN DRYDEN
74. METAPHYSICAL WORD COINED BY – JOHNSON
75. METAPHYSICS WORD COINED BY – DRYDEN
76. FATHER OF MODERN DRAMA – EUGENE O NEIL
77. FATHER OF SHORT STORY – EDGAR ALLAN POE
78. FOUNDER OF IRISH THEATRE MOVEMENT – W.B. YEATS
79. THE TRANSITION PERIOD FAMOUS FOR – THOMAS GRAY

80. Nissim Ezekiel = The Father of Indian English Poetry

81.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature

82.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry

83.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language

84.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance

85.Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National Poet

86.Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.

87.Venerable Bede = The Father of English History

88.King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose

89.Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy

90.Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer

91.Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)

92.Edmund Spenser = The Child of Renaissance

93.Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation

94.Gutenberg = The Father of Printing

95.William Caxton = Father of English Press

96.Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay

97.John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation

98.Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy

99.William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon

100.William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama

101.William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon

102.William Shakespeare = The Bard

103.Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)

104.Robert Burns = The National Poet of Scotland

105.Robert Burns = Rabbie

106.Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet

107.William Dunber = The Chaucer of Scotland

108.John Dryden = Father of English criticism

109.William of Newbury = Father of Historical Criticism

110.John Donne = Poet of love

111.John Donne = Metaphysical poet

112.John Milton = Epic poet

113.John Milton = The great master of verse

114.John Milton = Lady of the Christ College

115.John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party

116.John Milton = Master of the Grand style

118.John Milton = The Blind Poet of England

119.Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet

120.William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature

121.William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature

122.William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature

123.William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet

124.William Wordsworth = Poet of Childhood

125.William Wordsworth = Egotistical Sublime

126.Samuel Taylor Coleridge = The Poet of Supernaturalism

127.Samuel Taylor Coleridge = Opium Eater

128.Coleridge & Wordsworth = The Father of Romanticism

129.Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey = Lake Poets

130.Lord Byron = The Rebel Poet

131.Percy Bysshe Shelley = The Revolutionary Poet

132.Percy Bysshe Shelley = Poet of hope and regeneration

133.John Keats = Poet of Beauty

134.William Blake = The Mystic Poet

135.John Keats = Chameleon Poet

136.Lord Alfred Tennyson = The Representative of the Victorian Era

137.George Bernard Shaw = The greatest modern dramatist

138.George Bernard Shaw = The Iconoclast

139.Jane Austen = Anti-romantic in Romantic age

140.Lindley Murray = Father of English Grammar

141.James Joyce = Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel

142.Edgar Allen Poe = Father of English Mystery play

143.Edgar Allen Poe = The Father of English Short Story

144.Henry Fielding = The Father of English Novel

145.Samuel Johnson = Father of English one Act Play

146.Sigmund Freud = A great Psycho-analyst

147.Robert Frost = The Poet of Terror

148.Francesco Petrarch = The Father of Sonnet (Italian)

149.Francesco Petrarch = The Father of Humanism

150.Sir Thomas Wyatt = The Father of English Sonnet

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

152.William Hazlitt = Critic’s Critic

153.Charles Lamb = The Essay of Elia

154.Arthur Miller = Mulk Raj Anand of America

155.Addison = The voice of humanist Puritanism

156.Emerson = The Seneca of America

157.Mother Teresa = The Boon of Heaven

158.Thomas Nash = Young Juvenile

159.Thomas Decker = Fore-runner of Humorist

160.Homer = The Father of Epic Poetry

161.Homer = The Blind Poet

162.Henrick Ibsen = Father of Modern theatre

163.Rabindranath Tagore = Indian National Poet