1. FATHER OF ENGLISH POETRY –CHAUCER
2. FATHER OF ENGLISH PROSE – KING ALFRED
3. FATHER OF ENGLISH NOVEL – HENRY FIELDING
4. FATHER OF ENGLISH MODERN PROSE – BACON
5. FATHER OF MODERN LINGUISTICS – BLOOMSFIELD
6. FATHER OF ENGLISH ESSAYS – BACON
7. FATHER OF ESSAYS – MONTAIGNE
8. FATHER OF AMERICAN TRANSCENDENTALISM – EMERSON
9. FATHER OF HISTORICAL NOVEL – SIR WALTER SCOTT
10. FATHER OF REVENGE TRAGEDY – THOMAS KYD
11. FATHER OF SECOND ENGLISH POETS – EDMUND SPENSER
12. PRINCE OF ENGLISH ESSAYIST – CHARLES LAMB
13. POETS POET – SPENSER
14. CRITICS CRITIC – HAZLITT
15. THE FOUNDER OF KNIGHT SCHOOL OF POETRY – MARLOWE
16. THE FOUNDER OF METAPHYSICAL SCHOOL OF POETRY – JOHN DONNE
17. THE FOUNDER OF LAKE SCHOOL OF POETRY – WORDSWORTH
18. THE FOUNDER OF SAITANIK SCHOOL OF POETRY – LORD BYRON
19. THE FOUNDER OF CHAUCER SOCIETY – FURNIVALL
20. THE FOUNDER OF SHAKESPEAREAN SOCEITY – STEELE
21. THE FOUNDER OF SONNET – PETRARCH
22. THE FOUNDER OF’THE CLUB’ – JOHNSON
23. THE FOUNDER OF SOCIETY FOR PURE ENGLISH – ROBERT BRIDGES
24. FOUNDER OF NEW SHAKESPEAREAN SOCIETY – FURNIVALL
25. FOUNDER OF THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY – BALEVATSKY
26. FOUNDER OF T.G. GRAMMAR – NOAM CHOMSKY
27. FOUNDER OF SHELLY SOCIETY – STEELE\
28. FOUNDER OF TOUCHSTONE METHOD – MATHEW ARNOLD
29. FOUNDER OF PSYCHO-ANALYSIS – SIGMUND FREUD
30. FATHER OF PLAGIRIST – CHAUCER
31. FATHER OF PRE-RAPHELITE MOVEMENT – D.G. ROSSETTI
32. PRINCE OF PLAGIRIST – SHAKESPEARE
33. FATHER OF GOTHIC NOVELS – HORACE WALPOLE
34. FATHER OF ENGLISH DRAMA – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
35. MORNING STAR OF ENGLISH DRAMA – CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
36. MORNING STAR OF REFORMATION – WYCLIFF
37. CHILD OF RENAISSANCE & REFORMATION – SPENSER
38. FOUNDER OF BRITISH SCHOOL OF LINGUISTICS – J.R. FIRTH
39. FOUNDER OF PRAMASAMAJ – DEVENDRANATH TAGORE
40. AUTHORISED VERISON OF THE BIBLE- KING JAMES I
41. EXPONENTS OF TRAGIC COMEDY – SHAKESPEARE
42. EXPONENT OF EPISTOLARY NOVEL – SAMUEL RICHARDSON
43. EXPONENT OF SPRUNG RHYTHM – G.M. HOPKINS
44. EXPONENT OF SOCIAL ESSAYS – FRANCIS BACON
45. EXPONENT OF REGIONAL NOVELS – THOMAS HARDY
46. EXPONENT OF DOMESTIC NOVELS – JANE AUSTEN
47. EXPONENT OF DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE – ROBERT BROWNING
48. EXPONENT OF PRACTICAL CRITICISM – I.A. RICHARDS
49. FATHER OF ENGLISH CRITICISM – DRYDEN
50. FATHER OF AMERICAN POETRY – WILLIAM CULLER BRYANT
51. MOVEMENT OF POETS COINED – J.D. SCOTT
52. INTRODUCER OF BLANK VERSE – EARL OF SURREY
53. INTRODUCER OF FREE VERSE – WALT WHITMAN
54. INTRODUCER OF LIMARIC – EDWARD LEAR
55. FOUNDER OF ‘JOURNAL’ – SHELLEY
56. INTRODUCER OF SONNET – WYATT
57. STRUCTURALISM ASSOCIATED WITH – FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE
58. AMBIGUITY ASSOCIATED WITH – WILLIAM EMPSON
59. ARCHITYPE ASSOCIATED WITH – NORTHROP FRYE
60. LIBIDO & PSYCHO-ANALYSIS ASSOCIATED WITH – C.G. JUNG
61. THE BARD OF AVAN KNOWN AS – SHAKESPEARE
62. SAGE OF CONCORD – EMERSON
63. THE FIRST LEXICOGRAPHER – SAMUEL JOHNSON
64. INTRODUCER OF THE TERZA RHYMA(RIMA) – SHELLEY
65. INTRODUCER OF PRINTING PRESS IN ENGLAND – WILLIAM CAXTON
66. INVENTED OF PRINTING PRESS – JOHN GUTTENSBURG
67. THE WELL OF ENGLISH POETRY – CHAUCER
68. THE PRE-CURSORS OF ENGLISH NOVEL – ADDISON & STEELE
69. TWENTIETH CENTURY DRYDEN KNOWN AS – T.S. ELIOT
70. FOUNDER OF COCKNEY SCHOOL OF POETRY – HAZLITT
71. FOUNDER OF GRAVEYARD SCHOOL OF POETRY – THOMAS GRAY
72. THE ‘GENTLE’WRITER KNOWN AS – CHARLES LAMB
73. PROMINENT MEMBER OF ROYAL SOCIETY – JOHN DRYDEN
74. METAPHYSICAL WORD COINED BY – JOHNSON
75. METAPHYSICS WORD COINED BY – DRYDEN
76. FATHER OF MODERN DRAMA – EUGENE O NEIL
77. FATHER OF SHORT STORY – EDGAR ALLAN POE
78. FOUNDER OF IRISH THEATRE MOVEMENT –w W.B. YEATS
Elizabethan : 1558-1603
Renaissance : 1500-1660
Romantic age : 1798-1830
Romantic : 1798-1832
Modern : 1901-1939
Post Modern : 1939
Shakespeare: Elizabeth age (1564-1616)
Churchill got Nobel: 1953
Novel award introduced in Literature: 1901
TS Eliot born : 1888
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Age/Period
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Golden age: Elizabeth I age
Mid English Period: 1066-1500
Modern Poet: TS Eliot
Oldest Period: Anglo Saxon
Romantic Age Poet: J Keats, Wordsworth
Romantic Period: 1798-1830
Shakespeare lived: Elizabeth Reign
Types
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Shakespeare : Plays/Drama
Bertrand Russel : Philosopher(UK)
Charles Dickens : Novelist
Goethe (Poet) : Germany
O Henry famous : Short history
Same period belong : ST Colidge + Wordworth
Epic Poet :John Milton, Lord Tennyson
William Hazlitit : Essayist
Francis Bacon : Essayist
Lucy Poem : Wordsworth
Charles Lamb : Essayist
Lyciday : J Milton
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English Literary Terms:
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A Fantasy: Imaginary Story
Achilles: Greek Fighter
Ballad: Short narrative poem
Catastrophe: The tragic end of dramatic events
Lexicographer: Dictionary Writers
Limerick: Short form of light verse
Melodrama: Play: Violent & Sensational themes
Novel: Latin word
Ode - a lyric poem, often in the form of an address.
Opera – a musical drama.
Parody – imitation of a poem or a writing.
Penny dreadful – blood and thunder tales.
Plagiarism – act of stealing from the writing of others.
Protagonist – the leading character in a play / novel.
Rhetoric – the art of persuasive impressive speaking / writing.
Rhyme – short poem in same sound.
Satire - The literary art that uses honour and wit to attack and expose human folly and weakness.
Sonnet – a poem of fourteen lines.
Thrillers – sensational stories
Renaissance: The revival of life
Romantic Poetry feature: Subjectivity
Romanticism: Love & Beauty
To Daffodils: Short lived human life
Books & writers Name
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A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking
A Farewell to Arms-Earnest Hemingway
A Long Walk to Freedom-Nelson Mandela
A Midsummer’s Nights Dream-William Shakespeare
A pair of Blue Eyes-Thomas Hardy
A Passage to India-E. M. Forster
Adonis-P. B Shelly
Akbar Nama-Abul Fazal
All’s Well that Ends Well-William Shakespeare
Andrea Del Sarto (Poem)-Browning
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in Eighty Days→ Jules Verne
As You Like it-William Shakespeare
Asian Drama-Gunner Myrdal
Blue Bird-Lord Alfred Tennyson
Caesar and Cleopatra-George Bernard Shaw
Canterbury Tales-Geoffrey Chaucer
Cesar and Cleopatra (Play)-G.B Shaw
Comedy of errors-Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment-Dostoevsky
Das Capital-Karl Mark
David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
Dialogues-Plato
Dictionary-Samuel Johnson
Discovery of India-Johor Lal Nehru
Divine Comedy-Dante
Don Juan-Lord Byron
Dr. Faustus-Christopher Marlowe
Emma-Jane Austen
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Earnest Hemingway
Freedom-Bertrand Russell
Friends not Masters- Gen Ayub Khan
God of the Small Things-Arundhuty Roy
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels-Jonathan Swift
Hamlet- Shakespeare
Hamlet-William Shakespeare
Heaven and Earth-Lord Byron
If Winter comes (Poem)- Shelley
Iliad-Homer
In Memoriam-Lord Alfred Tennyson
India Wins Freedom-Abul Kalam Azad
Isabella-John Keats
Julias Caesar (Tragedy)- Shakespeare
Jungle Book-Rudyard Kipling
King Lear- Shakespeare (tragedy)
Kubla Khan- ST Coleridge
Leaves of Grass- Walt Whitman
Lycidas-John Milton
Macbeth-William Shakespeare
Main Kemp-Ad loaf Hitler
Man and Superman-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage and Moral-Bertrand Russell
Measure and Measure-William Shakespeare
Memories of the Second World War-Winston Churchill
Merchant of Venice (Comedy)- Shakespeare
Mother-Maxim Gorky
Ode to the West Wind-P.B Shelly
Odyssey-Homer
Of human bondage- Somerset Maugham
Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens
Origin of Species-Charles Darwin
