LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Francis Bacon
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Kind Alfred the Great
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Henry
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Geoffrey Chaucer
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Detailed explanation-1: -INTRODUCTION: Bacon, the father of English essay, is the first great English essayist who enjoys a glorious reputation. He remains for the sheer mass and weight of genius. His essays introduce a new form of composition into English literature.
Detailed explanation-2: -William Tyndale: The Father of English Prose. The King James Bible, since its publication in 1611, has had a profound influence on the development of the English language, not only in the words and phrases that it employed but also in the syntax and grammatical usages that it rendered into the English vernacular.
Detailed explanation-3: -He is also called the Father of the Modern English Prose. Besides these two very remarkable achievements, Bacon was a thoroughgoing classical scholar with an encyclopaedic range of knowledge. He was an outstanding empirical scientist, an eminent jurist and influential statesman.
Detailed explanation-4: -When Mulk Raj Anand, regarded as the founding father of the Indian English novel, passed away last week, the 99-year-old writer left behind a rich legacy of ideas and thoughts that sum up his prolific life and works.