HUDIBRAS BY SAMUEL BUTLER
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Biography EssayAlthough Samuel Butler was largely overlooked by the general public in his own time— only one of his books, Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later (1901), was published without fin...
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The English novelist and essayist Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was a critic of established religious, social, and scientific ideas.Samuel Butler was born on Dec. 4, 1835, in Langar, near Bingham, Notting...
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The English poet Samuel Butler (ca. 1613-1680) is best known as the author of "Hudibras," a long comic poem that satirizes the Puritans.The exact date of Samuel Butler's birth is unknown. He was bapti...
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Largely overlooked by the general public in his own time--only one of his books, Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later (1901), was published without financial support from its author-- Samuel Butler a...
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Samuel Butler's reputation today rests almost entirely on his three fictional works--the post-humously published novel The Way of All Flesh (1903), together with the philosophical tales Erewhon (1872...
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As the author of Hudibras (1663-1678), a poetic monster of grotesque comic/satiric proportions, Samuel Butler has achieved legendary status as a monster maker. Previous to this century, Butler was mai...
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Samuel Butler , known largely in the late twentieth century (if at all) as the author of Hudibras (1663-1678) and whom librarians and students confuse with a late-Victorian novelist, was in his day a ...
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Samuel Butler is not exactly well known today in English literature, though he may be better known and more widely read now than in his own time, the latter days of the Victorian period. He was genera...
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In the following essay, Walker discusses the political atmosphere that Butler satirizes in Hudibras.
The eclipse of satire which marked the closing years of the reign of James I. lasted through the...
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In the following essay, Linden suggests that Butler's main characters in Hudibras "exist within an occult milieu" and that Butler, like other Restoration contemporaries, attacks t...
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In the following essay, Leyburn argues that scholars have been sidetracked by investigating possible models for Butler's characters in Hudibras and have, therefore, overlooked the ways in which...
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In the following essay, Boyce asserts that Butler's "biting wit and astonishing satiric allusion" make Hudibras the "best-known satire upon the Puritans."
The bes...
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In the following essay, Miller maintains that despite Butler's denial that Hudibras has any allegorical intent, the epic exhibits allegorical characteristics.
Literary scholarship has assert...
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In the following essay, Staves discusses the contradictory critical readings of Hudibras in order to analyze the object of Butler's satire.
… [The] real locus classicus of Augustan an...
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In the following essay, Hill discusses the major themes of Butler's Hudibras and the critical reception that this epic, which "is more quoted than read," has received since its pu...
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In the following essay, Snider compares Butler's Hudibras to other Restoration epics, including Paradise Lost, and argues that it occupies a "liminal space between the end of epic and th...
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Hudibras
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler
Critical Essay by Hugh Walker
