Father of modern English poetry | Jeoffrey Chaucer | |
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Modern poet | T.S. Eliot | Born in U.S.A. |
| | The Wasteland (Poem) |
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First known poet | Caedman | Genesis |
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Poet of Romantic age | John Keats | A man of Medicine / Poet of beauty / Poet of Sensuousness |
| | Ode to a Nightingale |
| | “A thing of beauty is a joy for even” |
| | “Beauty is the truth, truth is the beauty” |
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Father of English prose | Francis Bacon | Essayist |
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| Shakespeare | Known mostly for his poet |
| | Comedy of Errors |
| | The Merchant of Vanice (comedy) |
| | Hamlet (tragedy) |
| | As you like it |
| | The taming of shrew |
Greatest Modern English Dramatist | G.B Show | “The more things a man is ashamed of the more respectable he is” |
| | “God is on the side of big battalions” |
| | Caeser and Cleopetra(Play) |
| | Playwriter |
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| S.T. Coleridge | The rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| | “He prayeth best who loveth best’ |
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| O’Henry | Famous for short story |
| | The gift of Magie |
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| Jonathon Swift | Gulliver’s Travel |
| | Famous satirist in English literature |
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| Charles Dickens | A tale of two cities(Nobel) |
| | David copper field |
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| Charles Darwin | The Origin of Species |
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