SOURCE: "From the Eclipse of Satire to Butler," in English Satire and Satirists, J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1925, pp. 120-44.
In the following essay, Walker discusses the political atmosphere that Butler satirizes in Hudibras.
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