List of Famous Writers of English Literature

Title of the Famous Writers:

Name of the Writer	Title
Cædmon	First Known poet in English
Alfred the Great	The Founder of English prose
Venerable Bede	Father of English History
Dante	The father of Italian Language
Geoffrey Chaucer	Father of English poetry
Christopher Marlowe	The Father of English Tragedy
Sir Thomas Wyatt	First writer of sonnets
P.B. Shelly	Revolutionary Poet/Lyrical Poet
Ben Jonson	The Father of comedy of humors
S.T. Coleridge	Poet of Supernaturalism
Thomas Kyd	The Father of English Revenge play
Francis Bacon	The Father of modern essay/Natural Philosopher
Edmund Spenser	Poet’s Poet
Lord Byron	Rebel Poet
Galileo	The Father of Modern Astronomy
William Shakespeare	Bard of Avon and poet of human nature
John Keats	Poet of Beauty/Poet of sensuousness
John Donne	Poet of Love
Robert Herrick	The Greatest cavalier poet
Jonathan Swift	The Greatest satirist in English
John Milton	The master of epic/epic poet
Alexander Pope	Mock heroic poet
John Dryden	The Father of Modern English criticism
Henry Fielding	The Father of English novel
Dr. Samuel Johnson	The Father of English Dictionary
Thomas Gray	The Graveyard Poet
William Wordsworth	The Poet of Nature
Sir Walter Scott	The Father of Historical Novels

Pen Name of the Famous Writers:

Real name of the Writer	Pen Name
Eric Arthur	George Orwell
William Sidney Porter	O’Henry
Henry Fielding	Captain Hercules Vinegar
Mary Ann Evans	George Eliot
G.B.Shaw	Corno di Bassetto
Charlotte Brontë	Currer Bell
Samuel Langhorne  Clemens	Mark Twain
Jozef Teodor Konrad Nalecz Korzeniowski	Joseph Conrad

Notable Elegies and Writers:

Elegies	For whom the following Elegies are written
A Southern Night, by Matthew Arnold	On the death of Arnold’s brother
Adonais, by P.B. Shelley	On the death of John Keats
Astrophel, by Edmund Spenser	On the death of Sir Philip Sidney
Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Oliver Cromwell, by John Dryden	On the death of Cromwell
Haworth’s Churchyard, by Matthew Arnold	On the death of Charlotte Bronte
In Memoriam, by Alfred Tennyson	On the death of Tennyson’s friend Arthur Henry Hallam
In Memory of W.B.Yeats, by W.H. Auden	On the death of  W.B.Yeats
Lycidas, by John Milton	On the death of John Milton’s friend
Rugby Chapel, Matthew Arnold	On the Death of Matthew Arnold’s father
Thyrsis, Matthew Arnold	On the death of Arthur Hugh Clough
Heine’s Grave, Matthew Arnold	On the death of Arnold’s brother Heine
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray	On the death of the forefathers