Top 20 Writers of English Literature

 Top 20 Writers of English Literature:

- Father of English poetry/ literature / language: Geoffrey Chaucer

- Father of English prose : John Wycliffe

- The poet of poet : Edmund Spencer

- Bard of Avon: William Shakespeare

- Epic poet: John Milton

- Father of English novel: Henry Fielding

- Poet of Nature/Lake poet/Poet of children: William Wordsworth

- Poet of rebel : Lord Byron

- Revolutionary poet: P. B. Shelley

- Poet of beauty: John Keats

- Father of English essay: Francis Bacon

- Father of English short story: Edgar Allen Poe

- Father of English tragedy :Christopher Marlowe

- Father of romanticism : Coleridge & Wordsworth

- Father of English grammar: Lindley Murray

- The greatest modern dramatist: G. B. Shaw

- Poet of supernaturalism: S. T. Coleridge

- First sonneteer in English literature: Sir Thomas Wyatt

- A great psycho-analyst: Sigmund Freud

- Anti romantic in Romantic age: Jane Austen

Collected by  Md Ershad Alam

Asst Teacher, English   

11 August 2020