LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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G. B. Shaw
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Shakespeare
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P. B. Shelley
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William Wordsworth
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Detailed explanation-1: -William Shakespeare is considered by many to be the father of modern English Literature. It is not just his popularity and influence on modern writers that allows for this title to be attributed to him but because of the massive contributions he made to the development of the English language.
Detailed explanation-2: -George Bernard Shaw is famous for his role in revolutionizing comedic drama. He was also a literary critic and a prominent British socialist. Shaw’s most financially successful work, Pygmalion, was adapted into the popular Broadway musical My Fair Lady. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Who is known as the father of the English language? Geoffrey Chaucer.He was born in London sometime between 1340 and 1344. He was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat (courtier), and diplomat.