SL. No.

Name of Title
Literary Persons Conferred on Them
1. Geoffrey Chaucer The Father of English Literature

2. Geoffrey Chaucer The Father of English Poetry

3. Geoffrey Chaucer The Father of English Language

4. Geoffrey Chaucer The Morning Star of the Renaissance

5. Geoffrey Chaucer The First National Poet

6. Venerable Bede The Father of English Learning.

7. Venerable Bede The Father of English History

8. King Alfred the Great The Father of English Prose

9. Aeschylus The Father of Tragedy

10. Nicholas Udall The First English Comedy Writer

11. Edmund Spenser The Poet’s poet (by Charles Lamb)

12. Edmund Spenser The Child of Renaissance

13. Edmund Spenser The Bridge between Renaissance and

Reformation

14. Gutenberg The Father of Printing

15. William Caxton Father of English Press
16. Francis Bacon The Father of English Essay

17. John Wycliffe The Morning Star of the Reformation

18. Christopher Marlowe The Father of English Tragedy

19. William Shakespeare Bard of Avon

20. William Shakespeare The Father of English Drama

21. William Shakespeare Sweet Swan of Avon

22. William Shakespeare The Bard

23. Robert Burns The Bard of Ayrshire (Scotland)

24. Robert Burns The National Poet of Scotland

25. Robert Burns Rabbie

26. Robert Burns The Ploughman Poet

27. William Dunber The Chaucer of Scotland

28. John Dryden Father of English criticism

29. William of Newbury Father of Historical Criticism

30. John Donne Poet of love

31. John Donne Metaphysical poet

32. John Milton Epic poet

33. John Milton The great master of verse

34. John Milton Lady of the Christ College

35. John Milton Poet of the Devil’s Party

36. John Milton Master of the Grand style

38. John Milton The Blind Poet of England

39. Alexander Pope Mock heroic poet

40. William Wordsworth The Worshipper of Nature

41. William Wordsworth The High Priest of Nature

42. William Wordsworth The Poet of Nature

43. William Wordsworth The Lake Poet

44. William Wordsworth Poet of Childhood

45. William Wordsworth Egotistical Sublime

46. Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Poet of Supernaturalism

47. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Opium Eater

48. Coleridge & Wordsworth The Father of Romanticism

49. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey Lake Poets

50. Lord Byron The Rebel Poet

51. Percy Bysshe Shelley The Revolutionary Poet

52. Percy Bysshe Shelley Poet of hope and regeneration

53. John Keats Poet of Beauty

54. William Blake The Mystic Poet

55. John Keats Chameleon Poet

56. Lord Alfred Tennyson The Representative of the Victorian Era

57. George Bernard Shaw The greatest modern dramatist

58. George Bernard Shaw The Iconoclast

59. Jane Austen Anti-romantic in Romantic age

60. Lindley Murray Father of English Grammar

61. James Joyce Father of English Stream of Conscious

Novel
61. Edgar Allen Poe Father of English Mystery play
62. Edgar Allen Poe The Father of English Short Story

63. Henry Fielding The Father of English Novel

64. Samuel Johnson Father of English one Act Play

65. Sigmund Freud A great Psycho-analyst

66. Robert Frost The Poet of Terror

67. Francesco Petrarch The Father of Sonnet (Italian)

68. Francesco Petrarch The Father of Humanism

69. Sir Thomas Wyatt The Father of English Sonnet

70. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio The Father of Indian-Anglican Sonnet

71. William Hazlitt Critic’s Critic

72. Charles Lamb The Essay of Elia

73. Arthur Miller Mulk Raj Anand of America

74. Addison The voice of humanist Puritanism

75. Emerson The Seneca of America
76. Mother Teresa The Boon of Heaven

77. Thomas Nash Young Juvenile

78. Thomas Decker Fore-runner of Humorist

79. Homer The Father of Epic Poetry

80. Homer The Blind Poet

81. Henrick Ibsen Father of Modern theatre

82. Rabindranath Tagore Indian National Poet

83. Nissim Ezekiel The Father of Indian English Poetry

84. Michael Madhusudan Dutta The Father of Indo-Anglican Drama

85. Mulk Raj Anand The Father of Indo-Anglican Fiction

86. Mulk Raj Anand The Author for the Untouchable

87. Mark Twin The Father of American Literature

88. Walt Whitman The Father of American English Poetry

89. William Dunlap The Father of American Drama

90. Charles Brockden brown The Father of American Novel

91. Anton Chekov The Father of Modern Short Story

92. Ferdinand de Saussure The Father of Linguistics

93. Noam Chomsky The Father of Modern Linguistics

94. Robert Browning The Poet of Psychological Love

95. Robert Browning The Father of Dramatic Monologue

96. William Sydney Porter O. Henry

97. Charles Dickens Boz

98. Macaulay The Father of Indian English Learning

99. Isac Asimov The Father of Science Fiction

100. Empedocles The Father of Rhetoric (by Aristotle)

101. Kalidasa The Shakespeare of India
102. Ruskin Bond The Wordsworth of India

103. Horace Walpole The Father of Gothic Novel