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Samuel Butler (poet)
Poet and satirist
For other uses, see Samuel Butler.
This article is about the 17th-century poet, author of Hudibras. For the 19th-century novelist, author of Erewhon, see Samuel Butler (novelist).
Samuel Butler | |
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Portrait of Butler by Pieter Borsseler | |
| Born | 1612 or 1613 Strensham, Worcestershire, England |
| Died | 25 September 1680 (aged 67) London, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Notable work | Hudibras (1663–1678) |
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
Samuel Butler was born in Strensham, Worcestershire, and was the son of a farmer and churchwarden, also named Samuel.
His date of birth is unknown, but there is documentary evidence for the date of his baptism of 14 February.[1] The date of Butler's baptism is given as 8 February by Treadway Russell Nash in his 1793 edition