LIST OF FATHERS, FOUNDERS AND

PSEUDONYMS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE

Geoffrey Chaucer
The Father of English Literature
The Father of English Poetry
The Father of English Language
The Morning Star of the Renaissance
The First National Poet
Edmund Spenser
The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)
The Child of Renaissance
The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
The poet of poets; child of Renaissance
William Shakespeare
The Bard of Avon
The Father of English Drama
The Sweet Swan of Avon
The exponent of tragi-comedy
The Bard
John Milton
The Epic poet
The great master of verse
The Lady of the Christ College
The Poet of the Devil’s Party
The Master of the Grand style
The Blind Poet of England
Robert Burns
The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)
The National Poet of Scotland
The Rabbie
The Ploughman Poet
William Wordsworth
The Worshipper of Nature
The High Priest of Nature
The Poet of Nature
The Lake Poet
The Poet of Childhood
The the founder of Lake School of poetry
Venerable Bede
The Father of English Learning.
The Father of English History
Francis Bacon
The Father of English Essay
The Father of Modern English Prose
The Child of Renaissance
John Donne
The Poet of love
The Metaphysical poet
The Father of metaphysical school of poetry
Hazlitt
The critic of critics
The father of Cockney school of poetry
Marlowe
The founder of Knight School of Poetry The Morning star of English drama
Jane Austin
The exponent of domestic novel
The Founder of Wessex Novels
King Alfred the Great
The Father of English Prose
Aeschylus
The Father of Tragedy
Nicholas Udall
The First English Comedy Writer
Gutenberg
The Father of Printing
William Caxton
The Father of English Press
John Wycliffe
The Morning Star of the Reformation
Christopher Marlowe
The Father of English Tragedy
William Dunber
The Chaucer of Scotland
John Dryden
The Father of English criticism
William of Newbury
The Father of Historical Criticism
Alexander Pope
The Mock heroic poet
Henry Fielding
The Father of English Novel
Bloomfield
The Father of Modern Linguistics
Emerson
The Father of American Transcendentalism
Montaigne
The Father of Essays
Walter Scott
The Father of Historical Novel
Thomas Kyd
The Father of Revenge Tragedy
Charles Lamb
The Prince of English Essayists
Robert Southey
The founder of Satanic School of Poetry (also Byron, to some)
Petrarch
The founder of sonnet
Mathew Arnold
The founder of touchstone method
Rossetti
The founder of Pre-Raphaelite movement
Horace Walpole
The father of Gothic novels
I.A. Richards
The exponent of practical criticism
Browning
The founder of dramatic monologue
Thomas Gray
The Founder of Graveyard School of poetry
Johnson and Dryden
those who coined the word ‘Metaphysical’ for poetry
Eugene O Neil
The father of modern drama
Edgar Allan Poe
The father of short story
W. B. Yeats
The father of Irish Theatre Movement.