Title of the Famous Writers:

NAME OF THE WRITER TITLE

1. Cædmon First Known poet in English
2. Alfred the Great The Founder of English prose
3. Venerable Bede Father of English History
4. Dante The father of Italian Language
5. Geoffrey Chaucer Father of English poetry
6. Christopher Marlowe The Father of English Tragedy
7. Sir Thomas Wyatt First writer of sonnets
8. P.B. Shelly Revolutionary Poet/Lyrical Poet
9. Ben Jonson The Father of comedy of humors
10. S.T. Coleridge Poet of Supernaturalism
11. Thomas Kyd The Father of English Revenge play
12. Francis Bacon The Father of modern essay/Natural Philosopher
13. Edmund Spenser Poet’s Poet
14. Lord Byron Rebel Poet
15. Galileo The Father of Modern Astronomy
16. William Shakespeare Bard of Avon and poet of human nature
17. John Keats Poet of Beauty/Poet of sensuousness
18. John Donne Poet of Love
19. Robert Herrick The Greatest cavalier poet
20. Jonathan Swift The Greatest satirist in English
21. John Milton The master of epic/epic poet
22. Alexander Pope Mock heroic poet
23. John Dryden The Father of Modern English criticism
24. Henry Fielding The Father of English novel
25. Dr. Samuel Johnson The Father of English Dictionary
26. Thomas Gray The Graveyard Poet
27. William Wordsworth The Poet of Nature
28. Sir Walter Scott The Father of Historical Novels

Pen Name of the Famous Writers:

REAL NAME OF THE WRITER PEN NAME
1. Eric Arthur George Orwell
2. William Sidney Porter O’Henry
3. Henry Fielding
4. Mary Ann Evans
5. G.B.Shaw
6. Charlotte Brontë
7. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
8. Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski
Notable Elegies and Writers:
ELEGIES
1. A Southern Night, by Matthew Arnold
2. Adonais, by P.B. Shelley
3. Astrophel, by Edmund Spenser
4. Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver
Cromwell, by John Dryden
5. Haworth’s Churchyard, by Matthew
Arnold
6. In Memoriam, by Alfred Tennyson
7. In Memory of W.B.Yeats, by W.H. Auden
8. Lycidas, by John Milton
9. Rugby Chapel, Matthew Arnold
10. Thyrsis, Matthew Arnold
11. Heine’s Grave, Matthew Arnold
12. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
Thomas Gray
Captain Hercules Vinegar
George Eliot
Corno di Bassetto
Currer Bell
Mark Twain
Joseph Conrad
FOR WHOM THE FOLLOWING ELEGIES
ARE WRITTEN
On the death of Arnold’s brother
On the death of John Keats
On the death of Sir Philip Sidney
On the death of Cromwell
On the death of Charlotte Bronte
On the death of Tennyson’s friend Arthur Henry
Hallam
On the death of W.B.Yeats
On the death of John Milton’s friend
On the Death of Matthew Arnold’s father
On the death of Arthur Hugh Clough
On the death of Arnold’s brother Heine
On the death of the forefathers