英国文学作家头衔.docVIP

Beowulf---the most important specimen of Anglo-Saxon literature;the most oldest epic of Germanic people. The Green Knight---the first great romance in English literature. Geoffrey Chaucer---the first preeminent English poet in history;the father of English poetry.Thus founding “the poets’ corner”. Sir Thomas Wyatt---he was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature;the founder of the golden Elizabethan poetry. Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey---are known for “fathers of the English sonnet”. Henry Howard---was the first English poet to publish blank verse. Francis Bacon---the founder of English materialist philosophy. Edmund Spenser---the poet’s poet Christopher Marlowe---the first dramatic to use blank verse in English Drama. John Milton---the most learned poet;the greatest writer of 17th century;he was a proponent of monism or animist materialism. John Dryden---the father of English criticism;he established the heroic couplet as the standard meter of English poetry. Thomas Gray---he is regarded as the predominant poetic figure of the mid-18th century. Oliver Goldsmith---the most versatile and lovable genius of the 18th century. William Collins---he was an important poet of the middle decades of the 18th century. William Blake---a major prophet of the Romantic movement. Robert Burns---the greatest poet of Scotland,is often called a peasant of farmer poet. Daniel Defoe---one of the founder of the English novel. Henry Fielding---the forerunner of English realistic novel and set up the theory of realism in literary creation. Richard Brinsley Sheridan---the most important play writer in 18th century. Load Byron---he is regarded as one of the greatest British. Sir Walter scott---the founder and great master of historical novel. Jane Austen---the first important English novelist ,belonged to Romantic Period. Charles Dickens---the most popular novelist of the Victorian era and one of the most popular of all time.The greatest representative of English critica