About Literature

About Literature (English)
1) Father of the English Language:
2) Father of English Literature:
Geoffrey Chaucer
3) Father of Modern English Poetry:
Geoffrey Chaucer
4) Father of English Dramatic Poetry/ Blank Verse:
Christopher Marlowe
6) Father of English Drama:
Christopher Marlowe
# Father of Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen
(Norwegian playwright)
7) Father of English Tragedy:
Christopher Marlowe
8) Father of English Comedy:
Nicholas Udall
Francis Bacon
10) Father of English Fairy Tale:
H. Christian Underson
11) Father of English Sonnet:
Sir Thomas Wyatt
sonnet)
12) Father of English Criticism:
John Dryden (1631 – 1700)
13) Father of English Novel:
Henry Fielding (1659 – 1731)
14) Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel:
James Joyce (1882 – 1941)
15) Father of English One Act Play:
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
16) Father of English Romanticism:
William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) & Samuel
Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
17) Father of English Grammar:
Lindley Murray (1745 – 1826)
18) Father of English Mystery Plays:
Edger Allen Poe (1809 – 1849)
19) Father of English Short Story:
Edgar Allen Poe
20) Father of English Dictionary/ First
Dr. Samuel Jonson
21) Father of Modern English Literature:
George Bernard Shaw
22) Poet of poets :
Edmund Spenser