Prominent Names in English Literature - Fathers (and Mothers) of Genres
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Flashcards covering key figures recognized as fathers (or mothers) of various English literary genres, with their associated genres.
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Who is the Father of English Poetry?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is the Father of Modern Drama?
William Shakespeare
Who is the Father of the English Epic?
Edmund Spenser
Who is the Father of English Epic Poetry?
John Milton
Who is the Father of the English Novel?
Daniel Defoe
Who is the Father of the Epistolary Novel?
Samuel Richardson
Who is the Father of the Picaresque Novel?
Henry Fielding
Who is the Father of the Detective Story and Modern Short Story?
Edgar Allan Poe
Who is the Mother of the Domestic Novel?
Jane Austen
Who is the Father of the Gothic Novel?
Horace Walpole
Who is the Father of Satire?
Jonathan Swift
Who is the Father of English Romanticism?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Who is the Co-Father of English Romanticism?
William Wordsworth
Who is the Father of the Social Novel?
Charles Dickens
Who is the Father of the Wessex Novel?
Thomas Hardy
Who is the Father/Mother of Psychological Realism?
George Eliot
Who is the Father of Modernist Literature?
Joseph Conrad
Who is the Father of Science Fiction?
H.G. Wells
Who is the Father of the Stream of Consciousness Novel?
James Joyce
Who is the Mother of the Modernist Novel?
Virginia Woolf
Who is the Father of the Adventure Novel?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Who is the Father of the Detective Novel?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Who is the Mother of Science Fiction?
Mary Shelley
Who is the Father of Modernist Poetry?
T.S. Eliot
Who is the Father of the Psychological Novel?
D.H. Lawrence
Who is the Father of English Tragedy?
Christopher Marlowe
Who is the Father of Utopian Literature?
Thomas More
Who is the Father of the Psychological Novel in America?
Henry James
Who is the Father of English Symbolism?
William Blake
Who is the Father of the Metafictional Novel?
Laurence Sterne
Who is the Father of English Printing?
William Caxton
Who is the Father of English Grammar?
Lindley Murray
Who is the Father of English Criticism and Modern Prose?
John Dryden
Who is the Father of the English Essay and Modern Empiricism?
Francis Bacon