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LIST OF FATHERS, FOUNDERS AND
PSEUDONYMS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE
1. Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Literature
2. 2.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Poetry
3. 3.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Father of English Language
4. 4.Geoffrey Chaucer = The Morning Star of the Renaissance
5. 5.Geoffrey Chaucer = The First National Poet
6. 6.Venerable Bede = The Father of English Learning.
7. 7.Venerable Bede = The Father of English History
8. 8.King Alfred the Great = The Father of English Prose
9. 9.Aeschylus = The Father of Tragedy
10. 10.Nicholas Udall = The First English Comedy Writer
11. 11.Edmund Spenser = The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
12. 12.Edmund Spenser = The Child of Renaissance
13. 13.Edmund Spenser = The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
14. 14.Gutenberg = The Father of Printing
15. 15.William Caxton = Father of English Press
16. 16.Francis Bacon = The Father of English Essay; (also of Modern English Prose, to some); also child of Renaissance
17. 17.John Wycliffe = The Morning Star of the Reformation
18. 18.Christopher Marlowe = The Father of English Tragedy
19. 19.William Shakespeare = Bard of Avon
20. 20.William Shakespeare = The Father of English Drama (to some Marlowe, too)
21. 21.William Shakespeare = Sweet Swan of Avon; the exponent of tragi-comedy
22. 22.William Shakespeare = The Bard
23. 23.Robert Burns = The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
24. 24.Robert Burns = The National Poet of Scotland
25. 25.Robert Burns = Rabbie
26. 26.Robert Burns = The Ploughman Poet
27. 27.William Dunber = The Chaucer of Scotland
28. 28.John Dryden = Father of English criticism
29. 29.William of Newbury = Father of Historical Criticism
30. 30.John Donne = Poet of love
31. 31.John Donne = Metaphysical poet
32. 32.John Milton = Epic poet
33. 33.John Milton = The great master of verse
34. 34.John Milton = Lady of the Christ College
35. 35.John Milton = Poet of the Devil’s Party
36. 36.John Milton = Master of the Grand style
37. 38.John Milton = The Blind Poet of England
38. 39.Alexander Pope = Mock heroic poet
39. 40.William Wordsworth = The Worshipper of Nature
40. 41.William Wordsworth = The High Priest of Nature
41. 42.William Wordsworth = The Poet of Nature
42. 43.William Wordsworth = The Lake Poet
43. 44.William Wordsworth = Poet of Childhood
44. 45. Henry Fielding = Father of English Novel
45. 46. Bloomfield = Father of Modern Linguistics
46. 47. Emerson = Father of American Transcendentalism
47. 48. Montaigne = Father of Essays
48. 49. Sir Walter Scott = Father of Historical Novel
49. 50. Thomas Kyd = Father of Revenge Tragedy
50. 51. Charles Lamb = Prince of English Essayists
51. 52. Spencer = the poet of poets; child of Renaissance
52. 53. Hazlitt = the critic of critics; father of Cockney school of poetry
53. 54. Marlowe = the founder of Knight School of Poetry (also Morning star of English drama)
54. 55. Donne = the father of metaphysical school of poetry
55. 56. Wordsworth = the founder of Lake School of poetry
56. 57. Robert Southey = the founder of Satanic School of Poetry (also Byron, to some)
57. 58. Petrarch = the founder of sonnet
58. 59. Mathew Arnold = founder of touchstone method
59. 60. Rossetti = founder of Pre-Raphaelite movement
60. 61. Horace Walpole = father of Gothic novels
61. 62. Jane Austin = exponent of domestic novel
62. 63. Founder of Wessex Novels
63. 64. I.A. Richards = exponent of practical criticism
64. 65. Browning = founder of dramatic monologue
65. 66. Thomas Gray = Founder of Graveyard School of poetry
66. 67. Johnson & Dryden = those who coined the word ‘Metaphysical’ for poetry
67. 68. Eugene O Neil = father of modern drama
68. 69. Edgar Allan Poe = father of short story
69. 70. W. B. Yeats = father of Irish Theatre Movement