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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