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English Module 3: The Founders and Fathers in English Literature

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1. Ezra Pound Founder of Imagism

2. Thomas Ernest Hulme Father of Imagism

3. Michel de Montaigne Father of Essays

4. Francis Bacon Father of English Essays

5. Herodotus Father of History

6. Venerable Bede Father of English History and English


Learning

7. Anton Chekhov Father of Modern Short Stories

8. Washington Irving First American Man of Letters.

9. Robert Browning Dramatic Monologues

10. Walt Whitman Bard of Democracy

11. James Cooper First Major American Novelist

12. King Alfred the Great Father of English Prose

13. Aeschylus The Father of Tragedy

14. Nicholas Udall The First English Comedy Writer

15. Emile Zola The greatest exponent of Naturalism in


Literature.

16. Edmund Spenser The poet's poet, the child of the Renais-
sance, and the bridge between the re-
naissance and Reformation.

17. Johannes Gutenberg The Father of Printing; invented the print-


ing press.

18. William Caxton Father of English Press

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19. John Wycliffe The Morning Star of the Reformation

20. Christopher Marlowe Father of English Tragedy; wrote "A Pas-


sionate Shepherd To His Love".

21. Robert Burns The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland), The Na-


tional Poet of Scotland, and The Plough-
man Poet; wrote "Auld Lang Syne".

22. William Dunbar The Chaucer of Scotland

23. John Dryden Father of English Criticism

24. William of Newbury Father of Historical Criticism

25. John Donne Poet of Love, Metaphysical Poet

26. Alexander Pope Mock Heroic Poet

27. Coleridge and Wordsworth The Father of Romanticism; Lyrical Bal-


lads

28. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey Lake Poets

29. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolutionary Poet, Poet of Hope


and Regeneration

30. John Keats The Chameleon Poet; Poet of Beauty

31. Lord Alfred Tennyson The Representative of the Victorian Era

32. Lindley Murray The Father of English Grammar

33. James Joyce Father of stream of consciousness nov-


els

34. Henry Fielding Father of English Novels; wrote "Tom


Jones".

35. Samuel Johnson Father of English One-Act Plays.

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36. Fransesco Petrarch The Father of Italian Sonnet, The Father
of Humanism.

37. Thomas Wyatt The Father of English Sonnet.

38. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnets

39. William Hazlitt The Critic's Critic

40. Charles Lamb The Essays of Elia

41. Arthur Miller Mulk Raj Anand of America

42. Addison The voice of Humanist Puritarianism

43. Emerson The Seneca of America

44. Mother Teresa The Boon of Heaven

45. Thomas Nash Young Juvenile

46. Thomas Decker The forerunner of the Humorists.

47. Henrick Ibsen Father of Modern Theatre

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