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FATHER'S LIST IN LITERATURE


1.     Father of English Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
Called by: John Dryden


2.     Father of English Language
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)


3.     Father of English Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)


4.     Father of English Comedy
Ben Jonson (1572-1637)


5.     Father of English Novel
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Called by: Sir Walter Scott


6.     Father of English Essays
Francis Bacon (1561-1626)


7.     Father of Essays
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)


8.     Father of American Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)


9.     Father of American Literature
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Called by: William Faulkner


10.  Father of Historical Novel
Walter Scott (1771-1832)


11.  Father of Revenge Tragedy
Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)


12.  The Second father of English Poetry
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)


13.   Father of Plagiarism
Thomas Rosica (1959-Present)


14. Father of English Drama
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)


15.  Father of English Criticism
John Dryden (1631-1700)
Called by: Dr. Johnson


16. Father of American Poetry
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)


17. Father of Modern Drama
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)


18. Father of Indian English Literature
Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)


19.Father of English Romanticism
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)


20.Father of African Literature
Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)


21. Father of Indian Poetry
Nissim Ezekiel (1924-2004)


22. Father of English Press
William Caxton (1422-1491)


23. Father of Modern Theatre
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)


24. Father of Tragedy
Sophocles (496-406 B.C)


25. Father of English Mystery Plays
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)


26.  Father of English Grammar
Lindley Murray (1745-1826)


27.  Father of English One Act Play
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

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