LIST OF FATHERS OF IMPORTANT LITERARY Genres. Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, James Joyce, Christopher Marlowe , Samuel Johnson

google.com, pub-4015147670331972, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 LIST OF FATHERS OF IMPORTANT LITERARY Genres.

1. Father of English History - Saint Bede ( 672/673 – 735 )

2. Father of English Literature, Poetry, Language & Short Story - Geoffrey Chaucer (1343? – 1400)

3. Father of English Drama - William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)

4. Father of English Criticism - John Dryden (1631 – 1700)

5. Father of English Novel - Henry Fielding (1707 – 1757)

6. Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel - James Joyce (1882 – 1941)

7. Father of English Tragedy - Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)

8. Father of English One Act Play - Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)

9. Father of English Romanticism - Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 – 1834) 
and 

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)

10. Father of English Grammar - Lindley Murray (1745 – 1826)

11. Father of English Essay - Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)

12. Father of English Mystery Plays - Edger Allen Poe (1809 – 1849) 

13. Father of Epic Poetry - Homer 

14. Father of English Press - William Caxton

15. Father of Modern theater - Henrik Ibsen.

16. Father of English Drama Christopher Marlowe.

17. Father Of Tragedy Sophocles.