Father of the English Language

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1. Father of the English Language:
   Geoffrey Chaucer (জিওফ্রে চসার)
2. Father of English Literature:
   Geoffrey Chaucer
3. Father of Modern English Poetry:
   Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Father of English Dramatic Poetry/ Blank Verse:
   Christopher Marlowe
5. Father of English Drama:
   Christopher Marlowe

তবে Father of Modern Drama: Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian

playwright)

1. Father of English Tragedy:
   Christopher Marlowe (মতান্তরে Thomas Norton and
   Thomas
   Sackville)
2. Father of English Comedy:
   Nicholas Udall
3. Father of English Essay (প্রবন্ধ):
   Francis Bacon (তবে Anglo Saxon Period এর King Alfred
   The Great কে Founder of English Prose বলা হয়।
   তিনি লিখেছেন The Anglo Saxon Chronicle)
4. Father of English Fairy Tale:
   H. Christian Underson
5. Father of English Sonnet:
   Sir Thomas Wyatt (তবে, ইতালীয় কবি Petrarch হলেন
   father of sonnet)
6. Father of English Criticism:
   John Dryden (1631 – 1700)
7. Father of English Novel:
   Henry Fielding (1659 – 1731)
8. Father of English Stream of Conscious Novel: James
   Joyce (1882 – 1941)
9. Father of English One Act Play:
   Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784)
10. Father of English Romanticism:
    William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) & Samuel Taylor
    Coleridge (1772 – 1834)
11. Father of English Grammar:
    Lindley Murray (1745 – 1826)
12. Father of English Realistic Comedy: Ben Jonson
13. Father of English Short Story:
    Edgar Allen Poe
14. Father of English Dictionary/ First Lexicographer
    (অভিধানপ্রণেতা) in English: Dr. Samuel Jonson
15. Father of Modern English Literature: George Bernard
    Shaw
16. Poet of poets : Edmund Spenser
    (কতগুলো নাম নিয়ে যথেষ্ট বিতর্ক
    থাকলেও বহুল প্রচলিত মতটিই
    এখানে দেয়া হলো)