Author:Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

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Samuel Butler
(1612–1680)

Samuel Butler

Works

• Hudibras (1663–1678)
• The Rehearsal (1672), co-authored with the Duke of Buckingham, Martin Clifford and Thomas Sprat.
• The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler (1759), in 2 vols. (transcription volumes: 1, 2)

Poems

• Cynarctomachy
• The Elephant in the Moon
• The Turn-Coat (1661)

Works about Butler

• "Butler" in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1794), by Samuel Johnson, pp.255-279.
• "Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Butler, Samuel (satirist)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Butler, Samuel (poet)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Butler, Samuel (poet)," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
• "Butler, Samuel," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)

On his works

• "Hudibras," by Marion Tucker in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)