Who's Who In The Domain Of English Literature

 

               Lists of Who's Who 

                                   Part I

1) who is considered as the father of English Literature?

Answer : Geoffrey Chaucer.

2) who is considered as the king of English Literature?

Answer : King Alfred the Great.

3) who is considered as the mother of the English fiction?

Answer : Frances Burney ( according to Virginia Woolf).

4) who is considered as the morning star of Renaissance?

Answer : Geoffrey Chaucer, he is also known as the father of English Poetry.

5) who is considered as the morning star of Reformation?

Answer : John Wycliffe.

6) who is considered as the morning star of Romanticism?

Answer : Thomas Grey.

7) who is considered as the morning star of Elizabethan drama?

Answer: Christopher Marlowe, he is also called as the child of Renaissance.

8) who is known as the father of English prose?

Answer: William Tyndale.

9) Who is called as the  father of English Essay?

Answer: Francis Bacon.

10) who is called as the father of Essay?

Answer : Montaigne.

11) who is considered as the father of English Grammar?

Answer:  Lindley Murray.

12) who is considered as the father of English Tragedy?

Answer: Aeschylus.

13) who is considered as the father of English Comedy?

Answer : Aristophanes.

14) who is considered as the father of English criticism?

Answer : John Dryden .

15) who is considered as the father of Impressionistic Criticism?

Answer: Manet.

16) who is considered as the father of Historical Novel?

Answer : Walter Scott.

17) who is known as the father of Detective story?

Answer : Edgar Allan Poe.

18) who is known as the father of Picaresque novel?

Answer : Thomas Nush.

19) who is known as the father of Modern Biography?

Answer: James Parton.

20) who is known as the father of English dramatic poetry?

Answer : Henrik Ibsen.

21) who is known as the father of Literary Romanticism?

Answer: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

22) who is called as the father of English Socialism?

Answer : Robert Owen.

23) who is known as the father of American Transcendentalism?

Answer : R.W.Emerson.

24) who is known as the father of Australian novel ?

Answer : Joseph Furphy.

25) who is considered as the Father of philosophy?

Answer: Socrates

26) who is considered as the father of pragmatism?

Answer: John Dewey.

27) who is considered as the father of Aesthetics?

Answer: Oscar Wilde

28) who is considered as the father of Cultural Studies?

Answer : Richard Hoggart.

29) who is considered as the father of Romantic poetry?

Answer: William Wordsworth.

30) who is known as the father of English one -act play?

Answer: Jacob Gordin.

31) who is considered as the father of Historical criticism?

Answer : William of Newbury.

32) who is known as the father of English Sonnet?

Answer : Sir Thomas Wyatt.

33) who is known as the father of Indian - Anglican Sonnet?

Answer : Henry Louis Vivian Derozio.

34) who is known as the father of Indo - Anglican drama?

Answer : Michael Madhusudan Dutta.

35) who is known as the father of Indo Anglican fiction?

Answer: Mulk Raj Anand .

36)who is known as the father of American drama?

Answer : William Dunlap.

37) who is known as the father of American novel?

Answer : Charles Brockden Brown.

38) who is known as the father of Modern short story?

Answer : Anton Chekov.

39) who is known as the father of Indian English learning?

Answer : Macaulay.

40) who is known as the father of science fiction?

Answer : Isac Asimov.

41) who is known as the Wordsworth of India?

Answer : Ruskin Bond.

42) who is considered as the king of English literature?

Answer : King Alfred the Great.

43) who is considered as the prince of English essay?

Answer : Charles Lamb.

44) who is known as the  poet of hope and  regeneration?

Answer : P.B. Shelley.

45) who is known as the poet of Terror?

Answer : Robert Frost .

46)who is known as the poet of the Beauty?

Answer : Keets.

47) who is known as the father of Bengali fiction?

Answer : Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay.

48) who is considered as the father of Modern detective fiction?

Answer : wilkie Collins.

49) who is considered as the father of English press?

Answer : William Caxton .

50) who is known as the Bard of Ayrshire ( Scotland)?

Answer : Robert Burns, he is also known as the National poet of Scotland & The ploughman poet.