WORLD OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

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WORLD OF FATHER AND FOUNDER LIST 


1.)  Father of English Literature ?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer 

B) William Shakespeare 

C) Edmund Spenser 

2.) Father of African Literature ?

A) Ben Okri

B) Wole Soyinka 

C) Chinua Achebe 

3) Father of English Essays ?

A) Francis Bacon 

B] Montaigne 

C) Hazlitt 

4) Father of Historical Novel ?

A) Horace Walopole 

B) Sir Walter Scott 

C) Walt Whitman 

5) Prince of English Essayist ?

A) D.H. Lawrence 

B) Charles Lamb 

C) Montaigne 

6) Father of Modern Drama ?

A) Irish Murdoch 

B) Eugene O Neil 

C) Christopher Fry 

7) Father of Short Story ? 

A) Edger Allan Poe 

B) Nathaniel Hawthorne 

C) Ralph Waldo Emerson 

8) Father of Revenge Tragedy ? 

A) George Peele

B) Robert Greene 

C) Thomas Kyd 

9) Father of English Criticism ? 

A) Samuel Johnson 

B) John Dryden 

C) William Hazlitt 

10) Who is called Critics Critic ?

A) Mathew Arnold 

B) Philip Sidney 

C) William Hazlitt

11) Who is called Poets Poet ? 

A) Edmund Spenser 

B) Francis Bacon 

C) William Shakespeare 

12) Father of American Transcendentalism ?

A) Washington Irving 

B) Mark Twain 

C) Ralph Waldo Emerson 

13) The Founder of Saitanik school of Poetry ?

A) Lord Byron 

B) John Keats 

C) Percy Bysshe Shelley 

14) Founder of Psycho Analysis ? 

A) Virginia Woolf 

B) Sigmund Freud 

C) Elaine Showalter 

15) The Founder of Metaphysical School of Poetry ?

A) John Dryden 

B) John Donne 

C) Samuel Johnson 

16) The Founder of Sonnet ? 

A) Sir Thomas Wyatt

B) Petrarch 

C) William Shakespeare 

17) Father of Morning Star of English Drama ?

A) Christopher Marlowe 

B) Edmund Spenser 

C) Geoffrey Chaucer 

18) Who is Called  Morning Star of Reformation ? 

A) Geoffrey Chaucer 

B) John Wycliffe 

C) John Donne 

19) Who is Called Child of Renaissance & Reformation? 

A) Edmund Spenser 

B) Francis Bacon 

C) Geoffrey Chaucer 

20) The Founder of Knight School of Poetry? 

A) Christopher Marlowe 

B) John Keats

C) Ben Jonson 

21) Prominent Member of Royal Society? 

A) John Dryden

B) Samuel Johnson 

C) Ben Jonson 

22) Metaphysical Word Coined by ? 

A) John Donne 

B) John Dryden 

C) Samuel Johnson 

23) Exponent of Reginal Novels ? 

A) Thomas Hardy 

B) Sir Walter Scott

C) Horace Walopole 

24) The Well of English Poetry ? 

A) William Shakespeare 

B) Geoffrey Chaucer 

C) Homer 

25) Father of Pre - Raphelite Movement?

A) D. G. Rossetti 

B) Henry Fielding 

C) John Suckling 

26) The Founder of Lake School of Poetry ? 

A) William Wordsworth

B) S. T. Coleridge 

C) John Keats 

27) Father of English Modern Prose ? 

A) Francis Bacon  

B) Edmund Spenser 

C) Geoffrey Chaucer 

28) Father of Second English Poets ?

A) Geoffrey Chaucer 

B) Charles Lamb 

C) Edmund Spenser  

29) Father of English Novel? 

A) Henry Fielding 

B) D. H. Lawrence 

C) Virginia Woolf 

30) Founder of Touchstone Method? 

A) Philip Sidney 

B) Mathew Arnold 

C) Samuel Johnson 

31) Father of Plagirist ? 

A) Geoffrey Chaucer 

B) William Shakespeare 

C) Socrates 

32) Prince of Plagirist? 

A) William Shakespeare 

B) Homer 

C) John Milton 

33) Father of Gothic Novel? 

A) Horace Walopole 

B) Ralph Waldo Emerson 

C) Edger Allan Poe 

34) Who Introducer of Sonnet? 

A) Sir Thomas Wyatt 

B) William Shakespeare 

C) Edmund Spenser 

35) Exponent of Sprung Rhythm?

A) Robert Browning 

B) G. M. Hopkins 

C) John Keats 

36) Exponent of Practical Criticism? 

A) I. A.  Richards 

B) Sigmund Freud 

C) Philip Sidney 

37) The Bard of Avan known as ?

A) John Milton 

B) William Shakespeare 

C) Geoffrey Chaucer 

38) Introducer of Terza Rima?

A) Percy Bysshe Shelley 

B) John Keats

C) Lord Byron 

39) Introducer of Printing Press in England ? 

A) John Wycliffe 

B) William Tyndale 

C) William Caxton 

40) The First Lexicographer ?

A) John Dryden 

B) Samuel Johnson 

C) William Hazlitt 











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