Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

1. Works:
   1. The lord Roos his answer to the marquess to Dorchester’s letter 91660)
   2. hudibras: the first part (16630
   3. Hudibras: the second part 91664)
   4. to the memory of the most renowned Du-Vall 91671)
   5. two letters (1672)
   6. hudibras: the third and last part (1678)
      1. The name is derived from the rash, hardy, ‘melancholy’ knight in Spenser’s The Faerie Queen.
      2. Heroic poem, a satire on the Cromwellians and on Presbyterian Church.
      3. The poem was published after Restoration in 1663. after publication he received a gift of money from Charles II.
      4. Hudibras of Butler’s poem is a Presbyterian Knight, one of those who rode out against the monarchy during Englan’s civil war.
   7. Characters (1759)