List of Must Know facts in English Literature
(Who coined
the words, First in English literature)
Father of English Essay – Bacon
Travel literature -
Richard Hakluyt
Literary Criticism -
Dryden
Prose Romance - Sidney’s
Arcadia
Pindaric ode –
Ben Johnso
Aphoristic Prose – Bacon
First Realist – Thomas Nashe
Picarisque Novel -
Unfortunate Traveller ( Nashe)
First Dramatic Lit. Satire- The Old wives Tale
(Peele)
Englihs Tragedy – Gorboduc (1561)
Firest Problem play- A Doll’s House
Father of Essay – Montaigne, Michael De (essas’)
Theory of Imitation - Plato
The Criterion -
T.S . Eliot
Surrealism - Andre
Breton
The Autobiography of a Super Tramp- W.H Davis .
Irish Literary Movement – W. B. Yeats
Comedy of Hemour- Ben
Johnson
Father of Criticism – Aristotle
Father of Criticism ( English) – Dryden
Fleshy School of Poetry - Buchanan
Shakespeare of American fiction - Henry James
Pablo Neruda(pen name) – Neftali Ricardo Reyes
Poet’s Poet / 2nd Father of eng.poetry- spencer
( Lamb)
Father of Eng Poetry – Chaucer
Father of new Criticism- I. A Richards
Comedy of menace – Harold Pinter
First Eng Parody Novel – Night of the burning
Pestle (1614) (B & F)
Alexanderine - 12
syllabic iambic line
Incunabula - Books
published
Provincialising Europe- dipesh Chakravarty
Utilitarianism – J.S Mill ( Benethan) (doubt)
The Vanity of human wishes - cynicism
Imagined communities- Benedict Anderson
The Lost Generation – Gertrude Stein( used the word
first)
The new Historicists- Greenblatt , Montrose, Goldberg
Archtype -
Freudian concept
Magic Realism – Italo Calvino
Samuel Pepys – 1660 to 1669
The nun Priest’s Tale Beast fable
Comedies of Humour
- Ben Johnson
The right wing Poet – T.S Eliot
War Time romanticism- Dylan Thomas
Grand Narrative – Lyotard
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