✏️GENERAL EDUCATION - ENGLISH KEY POINTS
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1. He is the first Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize.
➪ Rabindranath Tagore
2. He is considered as the greatest English writer and also known as the “Bard of Avon”.
➪ William Shakespeare
3. He is known as the father of horror stories.
➪ Edgar Allan Poe
4. He is known as the Father of Essays.
➪ Francis Bacon
5. He is a Filipino writer whose stories and poems depict Filipino-Spanish cultural beliefs and traditions.
➪ Nick Joaquin
6. He was the first Filipino National Artist for Literature awarded in 1973.
➪ Jose Garcia Villa
7. He is a Filipino migrant whose fiction stories reflect the Filipino’s concept of American culture.
➪ Bienvenido Santos
8. He is known as the greatest Indian writer of all time.”
➪ Kalidasa
9. He is called the “Morning Star” of English literature.
➪ Geoffrey Chaucer
10. He is the first man to replace myth with natural laws.
➪ Thales of Melitus
11. He is regarded as the greatest haiku poet.
➪ Matsuo Basho
12. He is recognized as the father of American literature.
➪ Washington Irving
13. He was the first mythical geographer who was recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and people encountered by his hero, Ulysses.
➪ Homer
14. He is a famous composer from Angono, Rizal, and was given a National Artist Award.
➪ Luis San Pedro
15. He is known as the master of “local color” because of his Pickwick Papers.
➪ Charles Dickens
16. He is a Philippine National Artist awardee for Literature, and used free verse and espoused the dictum, "Art for art's sake“.
➪ Jose Garcia Villa
17. She wrote the most exquisite love poems of her time in “Sonnets from the Portuguese”.
➪ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
18. He is a Japanese poet who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1968.
➪ Yasunari Kawabata
19. He is known as the Father of Tragedy.
➪ Christopher Marlowe
20. He is the first black Nigerian writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986.
➪ Wole Soyinka
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