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 | | Butler attributed to his astrologer actual interests of the Royal Society: optics, mathematics, silviculture, the circulation of the blood, and telescopic and microscopic observation. | | | Butler may have written the poem in 1666, a time when the Royal Society was particularly interested in lunar observation; some recent critics, however, assign it a slightly later date because of other topical references. | | | Butler also wrote verse satires that attacked fellows of the Royal Society (Boyle, Charleton, Evelyn and Hooke, in particular) for transgressing what he saw as normal intellectual boundaries. |
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| | SAMUEL BUTLER - LoveToKnow Article on SAMUEL BUTLER |
| | Butlers satire on Buckingham in his Characters (Remains, 1759) shows such an intimate knowledge that it is probable the second story is true. | | | The life of Butler was written by an anonymous author, said by William Oldys to be Sir James Astrey, and prefixed to the edition of 1704. | | | A more real defect, but one which Butler shares with all his contemporaries, is the tendency to delineate humours instead of characters, and to draw from the outside rather than from within. |
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| | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Following graduation from Cambridge, he lived in an low-income parish in London during 1858 and 1859 as preparation for his ordination to the Anglican clergy; there he discovered that baptism made no apparent difference to the morals and behaviour of his peers and began questioning his faith. | | | In 1872 his satirical novel Erewhon appeared anonymously, causing some speculation as to the identity of the author; when Butler revealed himself as the author, some expressed disappointment that none of the more famous personages speculated about had written it. | | | Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: |
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| | Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) |
| | Butler was evidently extremely fond of Miss Savage, and was devastated when she died unexpectedly, but the relationship has only fuelled speculation on her feelings for him, his for her, and on Butler's sexuality itself. | | | It is often assumed that she was in love with him and he failed to see it; others have drawn the conclusion that he was homosexual and that Lucie Dumas was Butler's Ellen Turnan... | | | Carey, Glenn O. 'Samuel Butler's Theory of Evolution: A Summary', English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, 1964:7, pp.230-33. |
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| | Samuel Butler (1612-1680) |
| | He has in his possession the common-place book, in which Butler reposited, not such events or precepts as are gathered by reading; but such remarks, similitudes, allusions, assemblages, or inferences as occasion prompted or meditation produced; those thoughts that were generated in his own mind, and might be usefully applied to some future purpose. | | | The verses are written with a degree of acrimony such as neglect and disappointment might naturally excite, and such as it would be hard to imagine Butler capable of expressing against a man who had any claim to his gratitude. | | | The poem of Hudibras is not wholly English; the original idea is to be found in the History of Don Quixote, a book to which a mind of the greatest powers may be indebted without disgrace. |
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| | Samuel Butler: A Sketch |
| | The Butlers are not related either to the author of 'Hudibras', or to the author of the 'Analogy', or to the present Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. | | | Butler was not satisfied with having written only half of this work; he wanted it to have a successor, so that by adding his two halves together, he could say he had written a whole Handelian oratorio. | | | Butler would have been just as well pleased if they had remained at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, for he never liked the book and always spoke of it as being full of youthful priggishness; but I think he was a little hard upon it. |
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| | Butler, Samuel -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The English poet and satirist Samuel Butler is famous as the author of Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities. | | | It is perhaps ironic that the life span of Samuel Butler embraced the whole reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901, for he was one of the most incisive critics of the morals, religion, and science of England's Victorian era. | | | E-text of this autobiographical novel by English novelist, essayist, and critic Samuel Butler. |
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| | Samuel Butler: The Mid-Victorian Modern Revisited press release |
| | Butler's major writings are shown in first and important later editions, many of them the author's personal copies or copies presented to friends, and some accompanied by autograph letters or with annotations by the author. | | | Among the major manuscripts shown are Butler's satire The Fair Haven; the score for Narcissus, an amusing cantata in the style of Handel; and two volumes of the master copy of Butler's manuscript note-books, a record of his most pungent wit. | | | The Chapin Library contains one of the world's most important Samuel Butler collections, including books, manuscripts, critical works, and memorabilia. |
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| | Samuel Butler And 'Hudibras' by Ian Jack |
| | Butler's subject is as different as possible from that of the romantic epic poet. | | | Butler took the name of his hero from Spenser, and his great comedy cannot be understood without glancing back to The Faerie Queene. | | | Butler's other works make it clear that Sir William Temple's description of Rabelais as `a Man of Excellent and Universal Learning as well at Wit' is no less applicable to him. |
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| | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) - Wikiquote |
| | Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another. | | | Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. | | | An idiot is a person who thinks for himself instead of letting other people think for him. |
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| | Samuel Butler |
| | This is founded upon the fact that Butler, in some of his other works, expressly calls Sir S. Luke, Hudibras. | | | The knight on his way to the lady's house is seized with doubts as to his success in courtship, and wonders if as a saint he may consult a fortune-teller. | | | Hudibras by Samuel Butler, from most anyone of various publishers and editions. |
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| | Powell's Books - Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler |
| | He was also, as The Way of All Flesh his deterministic tale of the havoc wrought by genetic inheritance, suggests, one of the great British masters of the novel of ideas. | | | Erewhon Revisited (1901), a sequel to his first work, is a final fantasy of ideas on English life and society in the nineteenth century. | | | A thinly veiled account of his own upbringing in the bosom of a God-fearing Christian family, Butler's scathingly funny depiction of the self-righteous hypocrisy underlying nineteenth-century domestic life was hailed by George Bernard Shaw as "one of the summits of human achievement." |
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| | The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler |
| | Butler is a master of making you feel for the characters, to "be there", without resorting to tricks and gimmicks. | | | Holt, the man to whom Ernest feels compelled to Witness to] was a great hulking fellow, of a savage temper... | | | This book was good because of the writing. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Erewhon (Penguin Classics) |
| | Samuel Butler does a neat balancing act with "Erewhon," a novel that is equal parts fictitious travelogue, philosophical tract, social/political/religious satire, and adventure story complete with a romantic subplot. | | | Butler's worst exaggerations are saved for the protagonist himself, however. | | | The title is an anagram of "Nowhere," which is the literal translation of the word "Utopia," the title by which Thomas More's 1516 work has commonly become known. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: Books: Erewhon (English Library) |
| | This was my first brush with Samuel Butler, so I did not really know what to expect, but despite the somewhat slow beginning (going into quite a bit of detail about how he reaches Erewhon), when he finally reached the lost civilisation, things really began to pick up. | | | The values of the Erewhonians seem alien to us (sickness is punished by imprisonment, crime is merely frowned upon, beauty and manners are equated with morality) so that we are presented with a people who are both detestable and fascinating. | | | Customers who bought books by Samuel Butler also bought books by these authors: |
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| | Butler : Hudibras |
| | Samuel Pepys comments in his diary that of Hudibras that "all the world cries [it] up to be the example of wit". | | | The second part of Samuel Butler's famous burlesque Hudibras is an elaborate satire on magic. | | | The intention is to show the whole magical tradition as quintessentially bogus. |
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| | Samuel Butler ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews |
| | John Heaviside Clark, Illustration for Part 2,Canto 1, Line 115, frontispiece and first plate in volume 1 of the book Hudibras by Samuel Butler (London: Thomas McLean, 1819), 1819 | | | John Heaviside Clark, Illustration for Part 1,Canto 2, Line 775, third plate in volume 1 of the book Hudibras by Samuel Butler (London: Thomas McLean, 1819), 1819 | | | John Heaviside Clark, Illustration for Part 1, Canto 2, Line 82, second plate in volume 1 of the book Hudibras by Samuel Butler (London: Thomas McLean, 1819), 1819 |
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| | Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras William Hogarth |
| | One of twelve illustrations Hogarth produced for Samuel Butler's poem Hudibras, this scene emblematizes a dramatic moment through the gestures, poses, and postures of the figures. | | | Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras |
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| | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| | He translated The Illiad and The Odyssey in 1898 and 1900 respectively and concluded that the author was a woman and wrote Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered (1899). | | | This was followed by The Fair Raven (1873) and a series of books on controversial scientific subjects. | | | His father was a cruel man who beat his son daily and was duly hated for this. |
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| | Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902: free web books, online |
| | The Iliad / translated by Samuel Butler [ | | | The Odyssey / translated by Samuel Butler [ | | | The following works are available from Project Gutenberg: |
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| | The Life of Samuel Butler |
| | Butler's other writings include prose 'characters', epigrams and verses, most notable of which is the poem "The Elephant in the Moon", a satire on Sir Paul Neale of the Royal Society. | | | Butler published the first part of Hudibras in 1663. | | | Butler had begun Hudibras around 1658, and continued work on it while at Ludlow, giving up the his stewardship in January, 1662. |
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| | §7. Butler. XIV. George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The ... |
| | A selection from his manuscript note-books appeared in 1912, under the title The Note-Books of Samuel Butler. | | | These literary controversies illustrate Butler’s antipathy to professional critics, and his view that the function of criticism is to disengage the personality of an artist from his medium of expression. | | | Butler’s admiration for Handel’s music, an admiration dating from his boyhood and constantly increasing, led to his attempt to compose in the Handelian manner, collaborating with Henry Festing Jones. |
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| | Samuel R. Delany |
| | Do a search for `Delany' at Publishers Weekly to find their promotions for his books. | | | My bibliography based on the books that I own. | | | He is doing a book signing with Octavia Butler. |
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| | Canterbury Writers: Samuel Butler - Christchurch City Libraries |
| | In the early chapters of Erewhon, Butler gave a realistic picture of the Canterbury high country and the land 'over the range', but the focus of the book is on the England he satirised through his description of Erewhonian society. | | | Samuel Butler spent only three years in New Zealand as a runholder in the headwaters of the Rangitata before returning to England, but the Canterbury experience gave him a significant base for a literary achievement of great distinction, and a well deserved reputation for irony and controversy. | | | Resourceful and energetic, he doubled his capital and freed himself from the dominance of his father and the Anglican church at a time of great intellectual perplexity over the troubling findings of Charles Darwin. |
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| | Poet and satirist, famous as the author of Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities. | | | In his service Butler undoubtedly had firsthand opportunity to study the motley collection of cranks, fanatics, and scoundrels who attached themselves to the Puritan army and whose antics were to form the subject of his famous poem. | | | It is directed against the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and hypocrisy that Butler saw in militant Puritanism, extremes which he attacked wherever he saw them. |
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| | The Way of All Flesh - Samuel Butler - Penguin Group (USA) |
| | With irony, wit and sometimes rancour, he savaged contemporary values and beliefs, turning inside-out the conventional novel of a family's life through several generations. | | | Published in 1903, a year after Butler's death, the novel is a thinly disguised account of his own childhood and youth 'in the bosom of a Christian family'. | | | If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific big-wigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.' With The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler threw a subversive brick at the smug face of Victorian domesticity. |
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| | Samuel Butler Online |
| | All images and text on this Samuel Butler page are copyright 1999-2005 by John Malyon/Artcyclopedia, unless otherwise noted. | | | Highbeam Research - Search Millions of Published Articles for Samuel Butler | | | We cannot be responsible for the content of external web sites. |
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| | That Mountain Must Come Down |
| | One the Biblical land of plenty; the other, the brief hideaway of Samuel Butler, author and gentleman. | | | Although Butler gave the area its enigmatic name, Erewhon refers to the land on the opposite side of the wide Rangitata headwaters from his home at Mesopotamia. | | | At the end of the road to Erewhon, lies the Urquhart farm, near glacial hillocks which I have only ever associated in their humpiness with some of the curious hills in pictures of rural China. |
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| | RPO -- Samuel Butler : Hudibras: Part I |
| | fury: the first edition reads "dudgeon." Butler altered it to "fury" in 1674. | | | The idea of a knight and a squire setting off on a series of ludicrous adventures was suggested to Butler by Cervantes' Don Quixote; but the characters and exploits of Sir Hudibras and Ralpho are entirely original. | | | Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. |
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| | The San Antonio College LitWeb Samuel " Hudibras " Butler Page |
| | This Samuel Butler is sometimes called Hudibras Butler to distinguish him from | | | Samuel Johnson, " The Life of Butler " in Lives of the Poets | | | There would appear to be no Butler in print although Oxford Press has published at least parts I and II of Hudibras within living memory. |
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| | Samuel Butler's Families |
| | Witnesses to their marriage were John Pitch and John Miller. | | | Samuel married for the third time on March 20, 1768 at Great Wilbraham, England to Elizabeth Ayres, nee Gotobed, a widow. | | | From all indications, it would appear that Samuel was born, lived and died in the area of Bottisham, England. |
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| | Samuel Butler Quotes - The Quotations Page |
| | An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God has written all the books. | | | All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. | | | When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once. |
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| | Samuel Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Samuel Butler (1835-1902), grandson of the scholar, author of Erewhon | | | This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title. | | | Samuel Butler is the name of several notable persons: |
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| | Samuel Butler's Family |
| | William Butler was christened on April 21, 1829 at the Particular Baptist Chapel at Lode, England. | | | Hannah Butler was christened on September 3, 1834 at the Particular Baptist Chapel at Lode, England. | | | Elisa Butler was christened on November 3, 1831 at the Particular Baptist Chapel at Lode, England. |
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| | Samuel Butler : The Way of All Flesh |
| | This was not the case in 19th Century England, and Butler very often takes a break from the action to allow his narrator to comment and philosophize. | | | It seems that, for Samuel Butler, "The Way of All Flesh" means that all people - at various times, in various ways, and with varying degrees of destructiveness - use the ideas of religion and righteousness as a cloak for mere manipulation and the forcing of one's will. | | | It is an unpleasant idea, and would be almost unbearable if the novel itself did not hold out the possibility for hard-won growth toward genuineness - and perhaps even genuine Christian faith. |
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| | Butler, Samuel on Encyclopedia.com |
| | His Erewhon, in which he satirized English social and economic injustices by describing a country in which manners and laws were the reverse of those in England, appeared in 1872. | | | Erewhon de Samuel Butler (1835-1902) y los origenes de la filosofia de la tecnologia.(Reseña de libro) | | | In his single novel, the autobiographical The Way of All Flesh (1903), he attacked the Victorian pattern of life, in particular the ecclesiastical environment in which he was reared. |
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| | Samuel Butler (1612-1680) |
| | Part of Samuel Butler's work at the castle was towards this end, with account books apparently showing him making payments to craftsmen working on the repairs. | | | He took up painting and there are two portraits attributed to him in the nearby rectory. | | | He is supposed to have married around this time and was certainly still working on Hudibras, a satire ridiculing religious hypocrisy, while at Ludlow. |
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| | Samuel Butler’s Erewhon |
| | Butler was a staunch evolutionist, but if his introduction to his second edition can be taken at face value, his contemporaries read those chapters as attempts to “reduce Mr. | | | Darwin’s theories to an absurdity.” Today, we read those chapters as highly prophetic, prophesying not only the extent to which humans would become dependent on “machines” but also on their more and more rapid development. | | | Read, especially, the part about machines becoming intelligent. |
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| | Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Rev. Samuel Butler: MAIN |
| | Butler's life has been written by his grandson, Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon, as the Life and... | | | That Rev Samuel Baker is the same as this Samuel Baker is not established. | | | Thomas Butler, and grandson of Samuel Butler, was born at Langar, near Bingham, Nottinghamshire, on the 4th of December 1835... |
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| | Samuel Barber - Biography |
| | Born 9 March 1910 in West Chester, Pennsylvania, Barber wrote his first piece at age 7 and attempted his first opera at age 10. | | | Samuel Barber's music, masterfully crafted and built on romantic structures and sensibilities, is at once lyrical, rhythmically complex, and harmonically rich. |
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| | Samuel Butler Bibliography |
| | He wrote such works as his satire Erewhon ("nowhere" rearranged). | | | Samuel Butler was born in Nottinghamshire, England in 1835. | | | Page author: D C Wands Last Updated: 01-Oct-2005 |
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| | Erewhon Revisited by Samuel Butler Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by his Son. | | | I forget when, but not very long after I had published "Erewhon" in 1872, it occurred to me to ask myself what course events in Erewhon would probably take after Mr. | | | The Project Gutenberg Etext Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler #2 in our series by Samuel Butler Copyright laws are changing all over the world, be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before posting these files!! |
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| | Vision Journal - In Search of Utopia |
| | Nineteenth-century writer and musician Samuel Butler started his satirical career with the novel Erewhon (provocatively, "nowhere" again, nearly backwards). | | | Utopias have been so commonly seen in novels that their usually satirical opposite has its own noun, dystopia, a literary phenomenon well known: Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Huxley's Brave New World, Wells's Time Machine and Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four all exploit our longing for an ideal world by showing one that has gone horribly wrong. |
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