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English Literature Fact Book Kavitha Kaladharan Libin Henna Arshad Ahammad Chief Editor Kalyani Vallath Titles of Honour Morning star of Renaissance Geoffrey Chaucer Morning star of Reformation John Wycliffe Morning star of Romanticism Thomas Gray Morning star of Elizabethan drama Christopher Marlowe Father of English Poetry Geoffrey Chaucer Father of English Prose William Tyndale Father of Essay Montaigne Father of English Essay Francis Bacon Father of English Grammar Lindley Murray Father of Tragedy Aeschylus Father of Comedy Aristophanes Father of English Criticism John Dryden Father of Impressionistic Criticism ST Coleridge Father of Historical Novel Walter Scott Father of Detective Story Edgar Allan Poe Father of Picaresque Novel Thomas Nash Father of Modern Biography Lytton Strachey Father of English Dramatic Poetry Christopher Marlowe Father of Literary Romanticism Jean-Jacques Rousseau Father of English Socialism Robert Owen Father of American Transcendentalism R W Emerson Father of Australian Novel Joseph Furphy Father of Bengali Fiction Bankim Chandra Chatterjee Grandfather of English Novel Geoffrey Chaucer Grandfather of Modern Detective Fiction Wilkie Collins Swan of Avon William Shakespeare First Romantic Critic Longinus English Virgil John Lydgate The Monarch of Wit John Donne Priest of Nature William Wordsworth Indian Shakespeare Kalidasa Indian Scott Mulk Raj Anand The Great Unknown Walter Scott Glorious John John Dryden Poets’ Poet Edmund Spenser Child of Renaissance and Reformation Edmund Spenser Touchstone of English Poetic Sensibility Edmund Spenser Literary Bad Boy of the Victorians Samuel Butler Chaucer of Scotland William Dunbar Defender of Faith Henry VIII Pioneer of Modern Philosophy Francis Bacon The Laughing Philosopher Democritus The Weeping Philosopher Heraclitus The Last of the Romanticists W B Yeats First of the Women Novelists Frances Burney The Romantic Paradox Lord Byron Founder of English Regional Novel Maria Edgeworth The Ploughman Poet Robert Burns Prince of English Essayists Charles Lamb The Master Illusionist Daniel Defoe Corn Law Rhymer Ebenezer Elliott Prose Shakespeare Jane Austen The Peasant Poet John Clare The Last Elizabethan John Milton Lady of Christ’s John Milton Poetical Son of Spenser John Milton Prince of English Satirists Jonathan Swift The Great Charm of Literature Dr. Johnson The Last of the Great Victorians Thomas Hardy Champion of Orthodoxy G K Chesterton Darwin’s Bulldog Thomas Henry Huxley Ibsen of the West Hamlin Garland The Prose Whitman John Dos Passos First Woman Poet of Australia Ada Cambridge The University Poet James McCauley Philosopher Poet William Baylebridge Writers’ writer Catherine Mansfield The Poet of Liberty A C Swinburne First Great English Neoclassicist Ben Jonson A Sort of Prose-Shakespeare Thomas Heywood The Early Progenitor of the Novel Thomas Nash The Silurist Henry Vaughan The Irish Patriot Jonathan Swift A Realistic Romanticist Walter Scott Scorner of the field Charles Lamb Alpha of the Plough A G Gardiner Father of English Socialists Robert Owen The New England Poet Robert Frost Sage of Concord R W Emerson Mythopoeic Poet Jean Jay Macpherson The Last Augustan Dr. Johnson Father of the Kailyard School J M Barrie Queen of Crime / Duchess of Death Agatha Christie Prince of the Humanists Desiderius Erasmus The Last Great Renaissance Poet John Milton Saint of the Metaphysical School George Herbert The Nun of Amherst Emily Dickinson Old Possum T S Eliot Firebrand of India Sri Aurobindo The Queen of the Blues Elizabeth Montagu The Shakespeare of the Divines Jeremy Taylor The Gander of Cockermouth William Wordsworth Francis Bacon (called by Little Lord Keeper Queen Elizabeth when Bacon was a child) Johann Wolfgang von First of the Moderns Goethe Nigeria’s Shaw Wole Soyinka First Protestant of England John Wycliffe The Nightingale of Indian Song Sarojini Naidu Pseudonyms Pen Name Real Name George Eliot Mary Ann Evans Lewis Carroll Charles Dodgson Mark Twain Samuel Langhorne Clemens O Henry William Sydney Porter Boz Charles Dickens Banjo A B Paterson (Australia) George Orwell Eric Blair Victoria Lucas Sylvia Plath Saki H H Munro Currer Bell Charlotte Bronte Ellis Bell Emily Bronte Acton Bell Anne Bronte Arthur Pendennis W M Thackeray Michaelangelo Titmarsh W M Thackeray George Savage Fitzboodle W M Thackeray Charles James Yellowplush W M Thackeray Herr Teufelsdrockh Thomas Carlyle Arion G K Chesterton A E G W Russell Katherine Mansfield Katherine Beauchamp Murray Sholem Aleichem Solomon Naumovich Rabinovich Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet Maxim Gorky Alexei Maximovich Peshkov George Sand Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin Karen Blixen Isak Dinesen Robert Galbraith J K Rowling Flora Fairfield Louisa May Alcott Clive Hamilton C S Lewis Richard Bachman Stephen King Dan Kavanagh Julian Barnes Publications Editor/Publisher/ Name of the Publication Associated with New Lines Movement Poets JCL Commonwealth Literature Journal The Dial Transcendentalist Journal Brooklyn Eagle Walt Whitman Brooklyn Times Walt Whitman The Gentleman’s Magazine Edward Cave ISLE Reader Ecocriticism October Cultural Studies Commonweal Marxism Signs Feminism Kunapipi Post-colonialism Callalloo Post-colonialism Famous Scenes and Episodes Name of the Scene/Episode Play King Lear Storm scenes (Act III, Scene 1,2 & 4) Merchant of Venice Mercy episode/Trial scene (Act IV, Scene 1) Nunnery scene Hamlet (Act III, Scene I) Gravedigger’s scene Hamlet (Act V, Scene 1) Othello (Act V, Scene 2, the last The Bed Chamber scene scene) Porter scene Macbeth (Act II, Scene 3) Sleepwalking scene Macbeth (Act V, Scene 1) Recognition scene Pericles (Act V, Scene I) Romeo and Juliet The Balcony scene (Act II, Scene 2) The Tempest Shipwreck scene (Act I, Scene 1) The School for Scandal Auction scene (Act IV, Scene I) Screen scene The School for Scandal Stoning Baby scene Saved (by Edward Bond) Spider-Bee Episode The Battle of the Books Scaffold Scene The Scarlet Letter Rejection scene Pride and Prejudice Subtitles of Literary Works Name of the Work Subtitle Poetry Arcadia The Day Dreams of a Courtier (Philip Sidney) Ars Poetica Epistle to the Pisos (Horace)
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