Special Titles of English Literary Persons

 

  Special Titles of English Literary Persons

 

In English literature some literary persons called by a special title, or we can say some of them are regarded as pioneer or father of a specific literary genre or fact. Today we will learn about the titles of the famous literary persons in English Literature, Here you will find a table where first column describes the name of the person and second one shows the titles of that specific person. Let’s go through these information;

Name of Literary Persons	Title Conferred on Them
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
Venerable Bede Venerable Bede	The Father of English Learning.
	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)
	The Child of Renaissance
	The Bridge between Renaissance and Reformation
Gutenberg	The Father of Printing
William Caxton	Father of English Press
Francis Bacon	The Father of English Essay, Famous Essayist
John Wycliffe	The Morning Star of the Reformation
Christopher Marlowe	The Father of English Tragedy, Father of Blank Verses
William Shakespeare	Bard of Avon
	The Father of English Drama
	Sweet Swan of Avon
	The Bard
Robert Burns	The Bard of  Ayrshire (Scotland)
	The National Poet of Scotland
	Rabbie
	The Ploughman Poet
William Dunber	The Chaucer of Scotland
John Dryden	Father of English criticism
William of Newbury	Father of Historical Criticism
John Donne	Poet of love, Metaphysical poet
John Milton	Epic poet
	The great master of verse
	Lady of the Christ College
	Poet of the Devil’s Party
	Master of the Grand style
	The Blind Poet of England
Alexander Pope	Mock heroic poet
William Wordsworth	The Worshipper of Nature
	The High Priest of Nature
	The Poet of Nature
	The Lake Poet
	Poet of Childhood
	Egotistical Sublime
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Poet of Supernaturalism, Opium Eater
Coleridge & Wordsworth	The Father of Romanticism
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey	Lake Poets
Lord Byron	The Rebel Poet
Percy Bysshe Shelley	The Revolutionary Poet, Poet of hope and regeneration, Poet of Skylark and Winds
John Keats	Poet of Beauty, Chameleon Poet, Poet of Sensuousness,
William Blake	The Mystic Poet
Lord Alfred Tennyson	The Representative of the Victorian Era
George Bernard Shaw	The greatest modern dramatist, 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, The Father of English Short Story
Henry Fielding	The Father of English Novel
Samuel Johnson	Father of English one Act Play, Father of English Dictionary
Sigmund Freud	A great Psycho-analyst
Robert Frost	The Poet of Terror
Francesco Petrarch	The Father of Sonnet (Italian),  The Father of Humanism
Sir Thomas Wyatt	The Father of English Sonnet
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 Juvenile
Thomas Decker	Fore-runner of Humorist
Homer	The Father of Epic Poetry, The Blind Poet
Henrick 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, The Author for the Untouchable
Mark Twin	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 Chekov	The Father of Modern Short Story
Ferdinand de Saussure	The Father of Linguistics
Noam Chomsky	The Father of Modern Linguistics
Robert Browning	The Poet of Psychological Love
Robert Browning	The Father of Dramatic Monologue
William Sydney Porter	O. Henry
Macaulay	The Father of Indian English Learning
Isac Asimov	The Father of Science Fiction
Empedocles	The Father of Rhetoric (by Aristotle)
Kalidasa	The Shakespeare of India
Ruskin Bond	The Wordsworth of India
Horace Walpole	The Father of Gothic Novel
V,I. Lenin	The most translated Author of the world
Jonathan Swift	Father of English Satire,

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