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- 2. Samuel Butler was a poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a longsatirical poem
- 3. Samuel Butler was born in Strensham, Worcestershire, and was the son of a farmer and churchwarden,
- 4. He was educated at the King's School, Worcester, under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably
- 5. After the Restoration he became secretary, or steward, to Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery, Lord
- 6. In late 1662 the first part of Hudibras, which he began writing when lodging at Holborn,London
- 7. Despite the popularity of Hudibras, Butler was not offered a place at Court. However, Butler is
- 8. Butler was buried at St. Paul's, Covent Garden. Also, a monument to him was placed in
- 9. Hudibras is directed against religious sectarianism. The poem was very popular in its time, and several
- 10. Butler was also influenced by satirists such asJohn Skelton and Paul Scarron's Virgile travesti; a satire
- 11. Most of his other writings never saw print until they were collected and published by Robert
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