Founders and Fathers of English Literature

Proponents and Their Titles in English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Father of English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Father of English Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Father of English Language
Geoffrey Chaucer	The Morning Star of the Renaissance
Geoffrey Chaucer	The First National Poet
Venerable Bede	The Father of English Learning
Venerable Bede	The Father of English History
King Alfred the Great	The Father of English Prose
Aeschylus	The Father of Tragedy
Nicholas Udall	The First English Comedy Writer
Edmund Spenser	The Poet's poet (by Charles Lamb)
Edmund Spenser	The Child of Renaissance
Edmund Spenser	The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
Gutenberg	The Father of Printing
William Caxton	Father of English Press
Francis Bacon	The Father of English Essay
John Wycliffe	The Morning Star of the Reformation
Christopher Marlowe	The Father of English Tragedy
William Shakespeare	Bard of Avon
William Shakespeare	The Father of English Drama
William Shakespeare	Sweet Swan of Avon
William Shakespeare	The Bard
Robert Burns	The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
Robert Burns	The National Poet of Scotland
Robert Burns	Rabbie
Robert Burns	The Ploughman Poet
William Dunbar	The Chaucer of Scotland
John Dryden	Father of English Criticism
William of Newburgh	Father of Historical Criticism
John Donne	Poet of Love
John Donne	Metaphysical poet
John Milton	Epic poet
John Milton	The great master of verse
John Milton	Lady of the Christ College
John Milton	Poet of the Devil's Party
John Milton	Master of the Grand style
John Milton	The Blind Poet of England
Alexander Pope	Mock heroic poet
William Wordsworth	The Worshipper of Nature
William Wordsworth	The High Priest of Nature
William Wordsworth	The Poet of Nature
William Wordsworth	The Lake Poet
William Wordsworth	Poet of Childhood
William Wordsworth	Egotistical Sublime
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Poet of Supernaturalism
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Opium Eater
Coleridge & Wordsworth	The Father of Romanticism
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey	Lake Poets
Lord Byron	The Rebel Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley	The Revolutionary Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley	Poet of hope and regeneration
John Keats	Poet of Beauty
John Keats	Chameleon Poet
William Blake	The Mystic Poet
Lord Alfred Tennyson	The Representative of the Victorian Era
George Bernard Shaw	The greatest modern dramatist
George Bernard Shaw	The Iconoclast
Jane Austen	Anti-romantic in Romantic age
Lindley Murray	Father of English Grammar
James Joyce	Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel
Edgar Allen Poe	Father of English Mystery play
Edgar Allen Poe	The Father of English Short Story
Henry Fielding	The Father of English Novel
Samuel Johnson	Father of English one Act Play
Sigmund Freud	A great Psycho-analyst
Robert Frost	The Poet of Terror
Francesco Petrarch	The Father of Sonnet (Italian)
Francesco Petrarch	The Father of Humanism
Sir Thomas Wyatt	The Father of English Sonnet
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Opium Eater
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio	The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet
William Hazlitt	Critic's Critic
Charles Lamb	The Essay of Elia
Arthur Miller	Mulk Raj Anand of America
Addison	The voice of humanist Puritanism
Emerson	The Seneca of America
Mother Teresa	The Boon of Heaven
Thomas Nash	Young Juvenlie Humorist
Homer	The Father of Epic Poetry
Henrik Ibsen	Father of Modern theatre
Rabindranath Tagore	Indian National Poet
Nissim Ezekiel	The Father of Indian English Poetry
Michael Madhusudan Dutta	The Father of Indo-Anglican Drama
Mulk Raj Anand	The Father of Indo-Anglican Fiction
Mulk Raj Anand	The Author for the Untouchable
Mark Twain	The Father of American Literature
Walt Whitman	The Father of American English Poetry
William Dunlap	The Father of American Drama
Charles Brockden Brown	The Father of American Novel
Anton Chekhov	The Father of Modern Short Story
Ferdinand de Saussure	The Father of Linguistics