... England " Walter Scott Meaning shoemaker Father of English Literature Father of Middle English Period Father of English poetry – John Dryden called him so " Founder of English verse ” in the book Fables , Ancient and Modern • The father of ...

... poems , under no disguise at all . Thus it is easy to discover the originals of most of his best known characters in his relatives or himself ; Dr. Primrose , for example , is certainly his father ; the good priest in The Deserted ...

... Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost , ' - when he had named the Holy Ghost , he breathed his last , and so departed to the kingdom of Heaven . " So passed away , as quietly as he had lived , the " Light of the Church , " the " ...

... father of English prose , as Cædmon is of English poetry , and as Bede is of English learning . He is so in a double ... literature , which was to be hencefor- ward chiefly in prose , grew up around Alfred's court at Winchester . It is , of ...

... LITERATURE THE fourteenth century has been fitly called the most important ... English poets ceased to be mere copyists of a foreign school , and ... father of English poetry , " GEOFFREY CHAUCER . Contemporaneous with Chaucer ...