The complete online text of The Fair Haven by Samuel Butler (novelist).

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, Nottinghamshire, the son of the local vicar. In a time of co...

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 baptized Feb. 14, 1613, in Strensham, Worcestershire. The...

Although 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 financial support from its author—Samuel Butler achieved fame soon...

Vivian Shipley, Fair Haven. Mobile, AL: Negative Capability Press, 2000 "... This was a song we had each heard in language / needing no translation; the grey notes of the squirrel, / of the dove were the words for a requiem we...

TERESA POLITANO, Restaurant Reviewer The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 05-26-2000 AT THE RAVEN & THE PEACH IN FAIR HAVEN By TERESA POLITANO, Restaurant Reviewer Date: 05-26-2000, Friday Section: LIFESTYLE / PREVIEWS Edition: All Editions -- Two Star P, Two Star B, One Star...