Samuel Butler

(1613-1680)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680 NRA: Butler, Samuel (1612-1680) Satirist DNB: Butler, Samuel (bap. 1613, d. 1680), poet LBT ID: SaButle1680 VIAF ID: 64028293 LOC ID: n50032588	B/BAP: 1613-02-14 DIED: 1680-09-25
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English satirist who ridiculed puritanism in his burlesque epic Hudibras (1663).
REFERENCES TO Samuel Butler: Charles Lamb to John Bates Dibdin, [11 January 1825 in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to John Bates Dibdin, [14 July 1826] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Verse 1: p. 711a Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1811 Verse 2: p. 268b p. 268b Henry Roscoe, The Life of William Roscoe 2 vols (London: T. Cadell, 1833) Chapter I. 1753-1781 Found 1: ¶ 34 Sir Henry Ellis to Samuel Rogers, 14 December 1843 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 3: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 ¶ 7 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 6: Periodical Press Verse 2: p. p. Ch. 16: British Association Found 1: ¶ 14 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter VI. Found 1: ¶ 117 Chapter VII. Found 1: ¶ 98 William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XX Found 1: ¶ 32 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter V. 1842-44. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1825 Letters: 1826 Verse 1: p. 711a