Great Contributors of English Literature

1. Father of English History - Saint Bede ( 672/673 – 735 )
2. Father of English Literature , Poetry , Language & Short Story -Geoffrey Chaucer (1343? – 1400)
3. Father of English Drama - William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
4. Father of English Criticism - John Dryden (1631 – 1700)
5. Father of English Novel - Daniel Defoe(1659 – 1731)
6. Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel - James Joyce (1882 – 1941)
7. Father of English Tragedy - Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)
8. Father of English One Act Play - Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
9. Father of English Romanticism - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
10. Father of English Grammar - Lindley Murray (1745 – 1826)
11. Father of English Essay - Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)
12. Father of English Mystery Plays - Edger Allen Poe (1809 – 1849)
13. Father of Epic Poetry - Homer
14. Father of English Press - William Caxton
15. Father of Modern theatre - Henrik Ibsen

1. Morning star of Reformation - John Wycliff
2. The child of Renaissance - Spenser
3. 20th century Dryden - T.S. Eliot
4. Mulkraj Anand of America - Arthur Miller
5. The Poet of Terror - Robert Frost
6. The voice of humanist Puritanism - Addison
7. Poet’s Poet - Spenser
8. Critic’s Critic - Hazlitt
9. Bard of Avon - Shakespeare
10. Sweet swan of Avon - Shakespeare
11. The Chaucer of Scotland - William Dunber
12. The Seneca of America - Emerson
13. The Wisest fool - Mohammed Bin Tuqlak
14. The Boon from heaven - Mother Teresa
15. The Archangel slightly damaged - Coleridge
16. England’s first historian - Bede
17. Lady of the Christ College - Milton
18. Master of the Grand style - Milton
19. Poet of the Devil’s Party - Milton
20. The morning star of the drama - Marlow
21. Young Juvenill - Thomas Nash
22. Fore runner of humarist - Thomas Decker
23. Master of heroic couplets - John Dryden & Pope
24. Originator of the form of the novel - Richardson
25. The last inheritor of Addison & Steele - Oliver Goldsmith
26. Pre-cursors of Romantic Movement - Thomas Gray & Francis Thomas
27. Lake Poets - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
28. Chameleon Poet - John Keats
29. Egotistical Sublime - William Wordsworth
30. Representative Poet - Tennyson


Works - Authors

# Essay on Man - a poem by Pope
# Essay on Milton - a prose by Macaulay
# Essay on Criticism - a poem by Pope
# Essay In Criticism - a prose by Mathew Arnold
# Essays of Elia - Charles Lamb
# Essays of Ancient & Modern - T. S. Eliot
# The Rape of the Lock - epic poem by Pope
# The Rape of the Lucrecee - a long poem by Shakespeare
# The way of the World - A comedy by William Congrave
# The Way of All Flesh - a novel by Samuel Butler.
# The Prelude - A poem by William Wordsworth
# Preludes - A poem by T. S. Eliot
# Elizabethan Essays - Prose by T. S. Eliot
# Elizabeth and Essex - prose by Lytton Stretchey
# Everyman - One of the best known morality plays.
# Everyman in His Humour - Satirical comedy by Ben Jonson.
# The Book of The Duchesse - A poem by Chaucer
# The Book of Martyrs - a story by John Foxe
# The Pilgrim’s Progress - by John Bunyan
# The Pilgrim’s of the Rhine - by Bulwer Lytton
# The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gent– a novel by. terne
# Tristram & Iscult - Matthew Arnold
# Lyrical Ballads - Collection poems by Coleridge&Wordsworth
# Prefare to Lyrical Bullads - A prose by Wordsworth.
# All for love - A blank verse tragedy by Dryden
# Love labour lost - A drama by Shakespeare
# A portrait of The Artist as a Young man- A novel by Joyce
# Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog- Dylan Thomas
# Portrait of dare - a novel by Francis Bret James
# A portrait of A lady - a novel by Henry James.
# The Duchess of Dadna - a drama by Oscar Wilde
# The Duchess of Malfi - tragedy John Webster
# A Tale of Two cities - a novel by Dickens
# A Tale of Manchester Life - a novel by Mrs.E.Gaskell
# The Anatomy of Melancholy - a critique by Robert Burton
# The Anatomy of the world - a poem on prince Henry written by
Donne
# The Battle of Books - a satire by swift
# The Battle of Maldon - Anglo Saxon war poem.
# A women killed with kindress - a drama by Heywood
# The woman in the Moon - a play by Lily
# Ode on The Nativity - a poem by Milton
# Ode on Duty - a poem by Wordsworth