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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.
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.
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 ]
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.
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.
Hudibras, satiric poem by Samuel Butler, published in several parts beginning in 1663. The immediate success of the first part resulted in a spurious second part’s appearing within the year; the authentic second part was published in 1664.
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 699 books on Goodreads with 71469 ratings. Samuel Butler’s most popular book is The Way of All Flesh.
BUTLER, SAMUEL(1835–1902) The English writer and critic Samuel Butler was the author of the satirical novels The Way of All Flesh, Erewhon, and Erewhon Revisited, as well as several discussions of philosophical biology and the theory of evolution.
Samuel Butler, a twenty-three year old former stay-maker from York, married the forty-six year old, Tryphosa Brockell in 1773 to become the manager of a theatre company which developed one of the most successful northern theatre circuits of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
