SL. No. | Name of Literary Persons | Title Conferred on Them |
1. | 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. | The Father of English Prose | |
9. | Aeschylus | The Father of Tragedy |
10. | Nicholas Udall | The First English Comedy Writer |
11. | The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb) | |
12. | 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. | The Father of English Tragedy | |
19. | Bard of Avon | |
20. | The Father of English Drama | |
21. | Sweet Swan of Avon | |
22. | 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. | Poet of love | |
31. | 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 |
38. | John Milton | The Blind Poet of England |
39. | Mock heroic poet | |
40. | William Wordsworth | The Worshipper of Nature |
41. | William Wordsworth | The High Priest of Nature |
42. | William Wordsworth | The Poet of Nature |
43. | William Wordsworth | The Lake Poet |
44. | William Wordsworth | Poet of Childhood |
45. | William Wordsworth | Egotistical Sublime |
46. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | The Poet of Supernaturalism |
47. | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Opium Eater |
48. | Coleridge & Wordsworth | The Father of Romanticism |
49. | Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey | Lake Poets |
50. | Lord Byron | The Rebel Poet |
51. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | The Revolutionary Poet |
52. | Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poet of hope and regeneration |
53. | Poet of Beauty | |
54. | The Mystic Poet | |
55. | Chameleon Poet | |
56. | Lord Alfred Tennyson | The Representative of the Victorian Era |
57. | George Bernard Shaw | The greatest modern dramatist |
58. | George Bernard Shaw | The Iconoclast |
59. | Anti-romantic in Romantic age | |
60. | Lindley Murray | Father of English Grammar |
61. | James Joyce | Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel |
61. | Edgar Allen Poe | Father of English Mystery play |
62. | Edgar Allen Poe | The Father of English Short Story |
63. | Henry Fielding | The Father of English Novel |
64. | Samuel Johnson | Father of English one Act Play |
65. | Sigmund Freud | A great Psycho-analyst |
66. | Robert Frost | The Poet of Terror |
67. | Francesco Petrarch | The Father of Sonnet (Italian) |
68. | Francesco Petrarch | The Father of Humanism |
69. | Sir Thomas Wyatt | The Father of English Sonnet |
70. | The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet | |
71. | William Hazlitt | Critic’s Critic |
72. | The Essay of Elia | |
73. | Mulk Raj Anand of America | |
74. | Addison | The voice of humanist Puritanism |
75. | Emerson | The Seneca of America |
76. | Mother Teresa | The Boon of Heaven |
77. | Thomas Nash | Young Juvenile |
78. | Thomas Decker | Fore-runner of Humorist |
79. | Homer | The Father of Epic Poetry |
80. | Homer | The Blind Poet |
81. | Henrick Ibsen | Father of Modern theatre |
82. | Rabindranath Tagore | Indian National Poet |
83. | Nissim Ezekiel | The Father of Indian English Poetry |
84. | Michael Madhusudan Dutta | The Father of Indo-Anglican Drama |
85. | Mulk Raj Anand | The Father of Indo-Anglican Fiction |
86. | Mulk Raj Anand | The Author for the Untouchable |
87. | Mark Twin | The Father of American Literature |
88. | Walt Whitman | The Father of American English Poetry |
89. | William Dunlap | The Father of American Drama |
90. | Charles Brockden brown | The Father of American Novel |
91. | Anton Chekov | The Father of Modern Short Story |
92. | Ferdinand de Saussure | The Father of Linguistics |
93. | Noam Chomsky | The Father of Modern Linguistics |
94. | Robert Browning | The Poet of Psychological Love |
95. | Robert Browning | The Father of Dramatic Monologue |
96. | William Sydney Porter | O. Henry |
97. | Boz | |
98. | Macaulay | The Father of Indian English Learning |
99. | Isac Asimov | The Father of Science Fiction |
100. | Empedocles | The Father of Rhetoric (by Aristotle) |
101. | The Shakespeare of India | |
102. | Ruskin Bond | The Wordsworth of India |
103. | Horace Walpole | The Father of Gothic Novel |
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Charls Lamb is known as the Prince of English essays.
Mulk Raj Anand is called as Charles Dickens of India
What a incredible list! I’m loving this post, it’s so well-researched and informative. I’ve always been fascinated by English literature and this blog has made me want to explore more. I’d love to see more posts like this in the future!