who is the father of English Literature ?
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Geoffrey Chaucer was considered to be the  father of English Literature
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Considered one of the great English literaries of our time, Charles Dickens captured the imaginations of his readers with timeless characters, such as Ebenezer Scrooge and Oliver twist, and rich story telling in books such as Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.  His popularity today is as strong as ever and evident by the fact that none of his works have ever gone out of print.\n\nThere is a start......
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Who invented it. No one. Although it has been derived from Anglo-Saxons and the Germanic tribes English is just made up of European languages mushed up together.
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<>One of the "Cappadocian Fathers." \n\nhttp://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07016a.htm
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William Wordsworth\n1770-1850\n\nWordsworth began work on the first extended poetic efforts of his maturity, Descriptive Sketches, which was published in 1793, after the appearance of a poem written at Cambridge, An Evening Walk (1793). Having exhausted his money, he left France in early December 1792 before Annette Vallon gave birth to his child Caroline. Back in England, the young radical cast about for a suitable career. As a fervent democrat, he had serious reservations about "vegetating in a paltry curacy," though he had written to William Matthews from France in May 1792 that he intended to be ordained the following winter or spring. Perhaps this plan was why he was reading sermons early in 1793, when he came across a sermon by Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, on "the Wisdom and Goodness of God" in making both rich and poor, with an appendix denouncing the French Revolution. His democratic sympathies aroused, he spent several weeks in February and March working on a reply. \n\nBy this time, his relationship with Annette Vallon had become known to his English relatives, and any further opportunity of entering the Church was foreclosed. In any case Wordsworth had been reading atheist William Godwin's recently published Political Justice (1793), and had come powerfully under its sway. "A Letter to the Bishop of Llandaff"--not published until 1876, when it was included in Alexandere B. Grosart's edition of Wordsworth's prose--is the youthful poet and democrat's indignant reply to the forces of darkness, repression, and monarchy.
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English is an Anglo-Frisian language brought to Britain in the 5th Century AD by Germanic settlers from various parts of northwest Germany. The original Old English language was subsequently influenced by two successive waves of invasion. The first was by speakers of languages in the Scandinavian branch of the Germanic family, who colonised parts of Britain in the 8th and 9th centuries. The second wave was of the Normans in the 11th century, who spoke Norman (an oïl language closely related to French).
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The ancient Greek scholar and librarian (in fact, the Head Librarian of the Great Library of Alexandria) Eratosthenes is called the "father of geography"
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I guess u mean who is thr discoverer of computers..well the Father of Computers is Charles Babbage.
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Alfred (Old English: Ælfrēd) (849? – 26 October 899) was king of the southern Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex from 871 to 899. Alfred is famous for his defence of the kingdom against the Danes (Vikings), becoming as a result the only English monarch to be awarded the epithet "the Great" by his people. Alfred was the first King of Wessex to style himself "King of England". Details of his life are known as a result of a work by the Welsh scholar, Asser. A learned man, Alfred encouraged education and improved the kingdom's law system (Doom book).
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Obviously he is. He invented a new trend on English literature which is unprecedented. Before no one wrote anything on confused personality like Hamlet, Macbeth. Only the Christopher Marlowe can be regarded his true rival. But he himself said ' To Whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!"
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Pretty much the father of the scientific method:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon\n\nHe's also been suspected of being Shakespeare's ghostwriter, but that's not science...
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Francis Bacon - who most believe helped write/wrote many of Shakespere's best works.
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William Blake (November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827) was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Though largely unrecognised during his lifetime, today Blake's work is almost universally considered that of a genius. According to Northrop Frye, who undertook a study of Blake's entire poetic opus, his prophetic poems form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the [English] language". Others have praised Blake's visual artistry, in particular his engravings: "[Blake] is far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced" [1].\n\nHowever, viewing Blake's accomplishments in either poetry or in the visual arts separately is to do him a disservice; Blake himself saw these two disciplines as being cohorts in a unified spiritual endeavour, and they are inseparable in a proper appreciation of his work.
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The most famous literary work from that period is The Pilgrim's Progress.  It is considered a Puritan classic.  Read about it at Wikipedia.  \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pilgrim's_Progress
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Herodotus is the Father of history.\n\nHerodotus of Halicarnassus was a historian who lived in the 5th century BC . He is known for writing "The Histories", a collection of stories on different places and people he learned about through his travels. It includes the conflict between Greece and Persia.\n\nConversely, many historians and philosophers who take a more sceptical view of Herodotus' accounts and narratives have a different name for him, dubbing him "The Father of Lies" or "the deceiver"
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Oscar Wilde - Charmides, Requiescat, San Miniato, Rome Unvisited, Humanitad\n\nAlfred, Lord Tennyson - Enoch Arden, Aylmer's Field, Sea Dreams, The Grandmother, Northern Farmer\n\nWilfred Owen - Strange Meeting, Greater Love, Apologia pro Poemate Meo, The Show, Mental Cases\n\nRudyard Kipling - TO WOLCOTT BALESTIER, To T. A, DANNY DEEVER, TOMMY, FUZZY-WUZZY\n\nJohn Keats - The Eve of St. Agnes, Fancy, The Human Seasons, Hyperion, If by Dull Rhymes our English must be Chain'd
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A good site that covers lots of works by different authors, it includes, Themes, Character analysis, and explains every thing that you are ever going to need to answer literature questions.\n\nhttp://search.sparknotes.com/?query=Beowulf&x=13&y=12\n\nType in the title of the book and navigate around until you find what you need.\n\nGood luck