Titles Name of the Famous Writers

Titular Names of the Famous Writers

Real Name        Titles / Titular Names

Anglo-Saxon Period (450- 1066)

Alfred the Great = The Founder of English Prose

Saint Venerable Bede = Father of English Learning/ The First Historian of English Literature/First Great Scholar/Doctor of the Church

Caedmon = Earliest Poet/ First known poet in English Literature/ Father of English sacred Songs/The Anglo-Saxon Milton/A poet blessed by God

Cynewulf= The Author of Christ

Aeschylus = Father of Greek Tragedy

Middle English Period (1066 – 1500)

Geoffrey Chaucer = Father of English Literature / Father of English Language / Father of English Poetry / First Humourist in English Literature / The Greatest Story-Teller in Verse

John Wycliffe = Translator of the Bible

The Elizabethan Age (1556 – 1603)

Edmund Spenser = The Poet of Poets / The Child of Renaissance / Court Poet

Francis Bacon = Father of Modern English Essay / Father of Modern Prose / First Essayist in English Literature

Christopher Marlowe = Father of Blank Verse / Father of English Tragedy / The Morning Star     

William Shakespeare = Father of English Drama / Bard of Avon / England's National poet / Poet of human Nature / The Dazzling Sun / The Greatest Dramatist of the World / The Greatest Superstar of the World

The Jacobean Age (1603 – 1625)

Ben Jonson = Father of English Comedy of Humour / Father of English Realistic Comedy

John Donne = Father of Metaphysical poetry / Metaphysical Poet / Poet of Love / Leader of Metaphysical poets

The Caroline Age (1625 – 1649)

John Webster = Dark Playwright

Robert Herrick = The Greatest Cavalier Poet

The Restoration Age (1660 – 1700)

John Milton = The Great Master of Verse / Epic Poet

William Congreve = Comedy of Manners   

George Herbert = Religious poet

John Dryden = Precursor of Enlightenment / Father of Modern English Criticism / Glorious John

The Augustan Age (1700- 1745)

Alexander Pope = Mock Heroic Poet / The Leader of the Augustan Age

Jonathan Swift = Master of Satire

                      

The Age of Sensibility (1745 – 1798)

Dr Samuel Johnson = Father of English Dictionary / The Compiler of First English Dictionary / First Lexicographer in English / Shakespeare’s Critic

Henry Fielding = Father of English Novel

Thomas Gray = Graveyard Poet

The Romantic Period (1798 – 1832)

William Blake = Poet and Painter / Precursor of Romanticism

William Wordsworth = Poet of Nature / Poet of Childhood / Lake Poet / The Founder of the Romantic Era

S.T. Coleridge = Poet of Super Naturalism / Opium Eater

Sir Walter Scott = Father of Regional and Historical Novel

William Wordsworth & S.T. Coleridge = Fathers of Romanticism

P. B.  Shelly = Revolutionary Poet / Poet of Hope & Regeneration /Lyrical Poet / Poet of Wind

                       

John Keats = Poet of Beauty / Poet of Sensuousness / The youngest Poet of English Literature / A Death Hunted Poet

Lord Byron = Rebel Poet / Byronic Hero

Jane Austen = Anti Romantic Novelist

Victorian Period (1832 – 1901)

Alfred Lord Tennyson = Representative Poet of Victorian Age

Robert Browning = Father of Dramatic Monologue

Mathew Arnold = Father of Modern Literary Criticism / Melancholic & Elegiac Poet

Mark Twain = Father of Modern American Literature

Charles Dickens = The Greatest Novelist in the Victorian Era

Maxim Gorky = Father of Socialist Realism

Thomas Hardy = Pessimistic Novelist

Edgar Allan Poe = Father of English Short Story / Mystery Writer of America / Father of Detective Story

The Modern Period (1901 –1939)

Henrik Ibsen = Father of Modern Drama / The Father of Realism

G.B.  Shaw = Father of Modern English Literature / Father of Modern English Drama

Thomas Kyd = Father of Revenge Tragedy

WB Yeats = Modern Romantic Poet /Ireland National Poet

James Joyce = Master of Stream of Consciousness

Jules Verne = Father of Science Fiction

Sully Prudhomme = First Nobel Prize Winner in Literature

Lindley Murry = Father of English Grammar       

VI. Lenin = The Most Translated Author in the World