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Samuel Butler's birthplace and childhood home. Butler was born on 4 December 1835 [3] at the rectory in the village of Langar, Nottinghamshire. His father was Rev. Thomas Butler, son of Dr. Samuel Butler, then headmaster of Shrewsbury School and later Bishop of Lichfield. [4] Dr.
Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras . Biography [ edit ]
Jun 14, 2024 · Samuel Butler was an English novelist, essayist, and critic whose satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the Victorian illusion of eternal progress. The Way of All Flesh (1903), his autobiographical novel, is generally considered his masterpiece. Butler was the son of the Reverend.
Erewhon: or, Over the Range (/ ɛ r ɛ hw ɒ n /) is a novel by English writer Samuel Butler, first published anonymously in 1872, set in a fictional country discovered and explored by the protagonist.
Samuel Butler was a poet and satirist, famous as the author of Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities.
For the author of Hudibras, see Samuel Butler.Samuel Butler was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopia...
Samuel Butler has 696 books on Goodreads with 70419 ratings. Samuel Butler’s most popular book is The Way of All Flesh.
Feb 25, 2016 · Samuel Butler (b. 1835–d. 1902), the iconoclastic writer who challenged a broad range of orthodoxies, is now best known for two novels—Erewhon (1872) and The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903)—and for his quarrel with Charles Darwin. He read Classics at St John’s College, Cambridge before embarking on a profitable sheep ...
Oct 10, 2023 · Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. For the 17th-century author of Hudibras , see Samuel Butler (poet)
Samuel Butler, the freethinking Victorian whom George Bernard Shaw deemed ‘the greatest English writer of the latter half of the nineteenth century,’ was born on December 4, 1835, at Langar Rectory near Bingham, Nottinghamshire.
