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SL. No.
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Name of
Literary Persons |
Title
Conferred on Them |
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1.
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The Father of English Literature
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2.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Father of English Poetry
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3.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Father of English Language
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4.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The Morning Star of the Renaissance
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5.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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The First National Poet
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6.
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Venerable Bede
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The Father of English Learning.
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7.
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Venerable Bede
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The Father of English History
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8.
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The Father of English Prose
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9.
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Aeschylus
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The Father of Tragedy
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10.
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Nicholas Udall
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The First English Comedy Writer
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11.
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The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
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12.
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The Child of Renaissance
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13.
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Edmund Spenser
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The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
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14.
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Gutenberg
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The Father of Printing
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15.
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William Caxton
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Father of English Press
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16.
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Francis Bacon
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The Father of English Essay
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17.
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John Wycliffe
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The Morning Star of the Reformation
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18.
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The Father of English Tragedy
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19.
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Bard of Avon
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20.
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The Father of English Drama
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21.
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Sweet Swan of Avon
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22.
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The Bard
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23.
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Robert Burns
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The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
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24.
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Robert Burns
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The National Poet of Scotland
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25.
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Robert Burns
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Rabbie
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26.
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Robert Burns
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The Ploughman Poet
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27.
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William Dunber
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The Chaucer of Scotland
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28.
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John Dryden
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Father of English criticism
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29.
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William of Newbury
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Father of Historical Criticism
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30.
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Poet of love
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31.
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Metaphysical poet
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32.
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John Milton
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Epic poet
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33.
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John Milton
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The great master of verse
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34.
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John Milton
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Lady of the Christ College
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35.
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John Milton
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Poet of the Devil’s Party
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36.
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John Milton
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Master of the Grand style
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38.
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John Milton
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The Blind Poet of England
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39.
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Mock heroic poet
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40.
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William Wordsworth
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The Worshipper of Nature
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41.
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William Wordsworth
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The High Priest of Nature
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42.
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William Wordsworth
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The Poet of Nature
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43.
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William Wordsworth
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The Lake Poet
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44.
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William Wordsworth
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Poet of Childhood
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45.
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William Wordsworth
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Egotistical Sublime
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46.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Poet of Supernaturalism
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47.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Opium Eater
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48.
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Coleridge & Wordsworth
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The Father of Romanticism
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49.
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Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
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Lake Poets
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50.
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Lord Byron
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The Rebel Poet
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51.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The Revolutionary Poet
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52.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Poet of hope and regeneration
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53.
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Poet of Beauty
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54.
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The Mystic Poet
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55.
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Chameleon Poet
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56.
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
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The Representative of the Victorian Era
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57.
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George Bernard Shaw
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The greatest modern dramatist
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58.
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George Bernard Shaw
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The Iconoclast
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59.
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Anti-romantic in Romantic age
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60.
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Lindley Murray
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Father of English Grammar
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61.
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James Joyce
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Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel
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61.
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Edgar Allen Poe
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Father of English Mystery play
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62.
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Edgar Allen Poe
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The Father of English Short Story
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63.
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Henry Fielding
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The Father of English Novel
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64.
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Samuel Johnson
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Father of English one Act Play
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65.
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Sigmund Freud
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A great Psycho-analyst
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66.
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Robert Frost
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The Poet of Terror
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67.
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Francesco Petrarch
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The Father of Sonnet (Italian)
|
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68.
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Francesco Petrarch
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The Father of Humanism
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69.
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Sir Thomas Wyatt
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The Father of English Sonnet
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70.
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The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet
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71.
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William Hazlitt
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Critic’s Critic
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72.
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The Essay of Elia
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73.
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Mulk Raj Anand of America
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74.
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Addison
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The voice of humanist Puritanism
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75.
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Emerson
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The Seneca of America
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76.
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Mother Teresa
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The Boon of Heaven
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77.
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Thomas Nash
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Young Juvenile
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78.
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Thomas Decker
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Fore-runner of Humorist
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79.
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Homer
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The Father of Epic Poetry
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80.
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Homer
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The Blind Poet
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81.
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Henrick Ibsen
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Father of Modern theatre
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82.
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Rabindranath Tagore
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Indian National Poet
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83.
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Nissim Ezekiel
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The Father of Indian English Poetry
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84.
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Michael Madhusudan Dutta
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The Father of Indo-Anglican Drama
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85.
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Mulk Raj Anand
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The Father of Indo-Anglican Fiction
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86.
|
Mulk Raj Anand
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The Author for the Untouchable
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87.
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Mark Twin
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The Father of American Literature
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88.
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Walt Whitman
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The Father of American English Poetry
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89.
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William Dunlap
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The Father of American Drama
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90.
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Charles Brockden brown
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The Father of American Novel
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91.
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Anton Chekov
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The Father of Modern Short Story
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92.
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Ferdinand de Saussure
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The Father of Linguistics
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93.
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Noam Chomsky
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The Father of Modern Linguistics
|
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94.
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Robert Browning
|
The Poet of Psychological Love
|
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95.
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Robert Browning
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The Father of Dramatic Monologue
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96.
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William Sydney Porter
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O. Henry
|
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97.
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Boz
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|
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98.
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Macaulay
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The Father of Indian English Learning
|
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99.
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Isac Asimov
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The Father of Science Fiction
|
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100.
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Empedocles
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The Father of Rhetoric (by Aristotle)
|
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101.
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The Shakespeare of India
|
|
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102.
|
Ruskin Bond
|
The Wordsworth of India
|
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103.
|
Horace Walpole
|
The Father of Gothic Novel
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