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	Samuel Butler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel Butler was born in Strensham in February 1613 and died in London on 25 September 1680.
		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.
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	Samuel Butler (1835-1902) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 - June 18, 1902) was a British writer best known for his satire Erewhon.
		Butler developed a theory that the Odyssey came from the pen of a young Sicilian woman, and that the scenes of the poem reflected the coast of Sicily and its nearby islands.
		Samuel's friend Henry Festing Jones wrote the authoritative biography: the two-volume Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir (commonly known as Jones's Memoir), published in 1919 and now only available from antiquarian booksellers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Butler_(1835-1902) (715 words)

	§7. Butler. XIV. George Meredith, Samuel Butler, George Gissing. Vol. 13. The Victorian Age, Part One. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel Butler was born on 4 December, 1835, at Langar rectory, Nottingham; he was the son of Thomas Butler and grandson of Samuel Butler, headmaster of Shrewsbury school and bishop of Lichfield.
		Samuel Butler was bracketed twelfth in the first class of the classical tripos at Cambridge in 1858.
		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.
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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.
		Butler was probably as little indebted to mere copying for his characters as for his ideas and style.
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BU/BUTLER_SAMUEL.htm (1997 words)

	Samuel Butler (1612-1680) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		SAMUEL BUTLER was born in the parish of Strensham in Worcestershire, according to his biographer, in 1612.
		Butler, however, was only made secretary to the Earl of Carbery, president of the principality of Wales, who conferred on him the stewardship of Ludlow Castle when the Court of the Marches was revived.
		Butler had deserved of the royal family by writing his inimitable Hudibras, and that it was a reproach to the Court that a person of his loyalty and wit should suffer in obscurity, and under the wants he did.
	www2.hn.psu.edu /Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/butler (3151 words)

	Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
		Samuel Butler was the second child and first son of Thomas Butler (1806-86) and Fanny (neé Worsley, d.1873), born on 4 December 1835 at Langar Rectory in Nottinghamshire, where his father had his parish.
		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.
		Butler's mother died in 1873, but although she is notionally the model for the horrible Christina Pontifex in The Way of All Flesh, very little is written about her influence on Butler throughout his whole life.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/butler.html (2228 words)

	Samuel Butler's Family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel died on June 21, 1886 at Lode, England and was buried in the Baptist Chapel graveyard.
		Elisa Butler was christened on November 3, 1831 at the Particular Baptist Chapel at Lode, England.
		Samuel Butler was born on 4 March 1839.
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	The Life of Samuel Butler
		Samuel Butler was born the son of a farmer at Strensham in Worcestershire, where he was christened on February 14, 1612.
		Butler published a second part to Hudibras in 1664 and a third in 1678, but died in abject poverty on September 25, 1680.
		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.
	www.luminarium.org /eightlit/butler/butlerbio.htm (491 words)

	Samuel Butler: A Sketch, by Henry Festing Jones
		Samuel Butler was born on the 4th December, 1835, at the Rectory, Langar, near Bingham, in Nottinghamshire.
		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.
		Butler had visited this sanctuary repeatedly, and was a great favourite with the townspeople, who knew that he was studying the statues and frescoes in the chapels, and who remembered that in the preface to ‘Alps and Sanctuaries’ he had declared his intention of writing about them.
	etext.library.adelaide.edu.au /b/butler/samuel/b98zj (10616 words)

	Samuel Butler's Families (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Samuel Butler was christened at Bottisham, England on June 16, 1728.
		From all indications, it would appear that Samuel was born, lived and died in the area of Bottisham, England.
		Samuel married, by banns, for the second time on June 1, 1761 at Bottisham, England to Ellen Potter.
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	Butler, Samuel -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is directed against the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and hypocrisy that Butler saw in militant Puritanism, extremes which he attacked wherever...
		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.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9018327 (777 words)

	Samuel Butler And 'Hudibras' by Ian Jack
		Butler `in general ridicules not persons, but things', said Hazlitt, `not a party, but their principles, which may belong, as time and occasion serve, to one set of solemn pretenders or another'.
		Butler's metre cannot usefully be considered in isolation from the other aspects of his idiom, for there is a perfect partnership between his versification and his diction.
		Butler's aim is to kill any sympathy which the reader may feel for the subject of his satire, moving him instead to amusement and contempt.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/butlers/hudibras.htm (3280 words)

	Samuel Butler: The Mid-Victorian Modern Revisited press release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The 19th-century English satirist Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh, is the subject of the main summer exhibition at the Chapin Library of Rare Books, Williams College.
		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.
	www.williams.edu:803 /resources/chapin/exhibits/butlerrelease.html (410 words)

	biografiaweb2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It is directed against the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and hypocrisy that Butler saw in militant Puritanism, extremes which he attacked wherever he saw them.
		Butler, the son of a farmer, was educated at the King's school, Worcester.
		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.
	mural.uv.es /mardeha/biografiaweb2.html (240 words)

	Samuel Butler (1835-1902) - Wikiquote
		Samuel Butler's Notebooks (1912) self censored "d_____d" in original publication.
		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.
		The Note-Books of Samuel Butler, vol I (1984) p.
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Samuel_Butler (1230 words)

	Samuel Butler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Samuel Butler is the name of several notable persons:
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Butler (84 words)

	Samuel Butler - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Fagles captures the rapid and direct language of the original Greek, while telling the story of Odysseus in lyrics that ring with a clear,...
		Samuel, the prophet of transition (Bible biography series)
		Samuel Butler, the way of all flesh: Photographs, paintings watercolours and drawings by Samuel Butler (1835-1902) : a catalogue of touring exhibition...
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /samuel_butler.htm (132 words)

	Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902, English author. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
		Butler opposed Darwin’s explanation of evolution, finding it too mechanistic, and he expounded his own theories in Evolution Old and New (1879), Unconscious Memory (1880), and Luck or Cunning as the Main Means of Organic Modification?
		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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	Amazon.com: Books: Erewhon (Penguin Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Butler is most decidedly in the former category, since he proves in not only "Erewhon" but also his more famous work, the semi-autobiographical novel, "The Way of All Flesh," that his main concern is in attacking the complacency and hypocrisy he saw infecting Victorian society.
		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 does strike on many ridiculous aspects of his Victorian society, and the United States today, in describing some of the inaneities of situation ethics of the Erewhonian gov't.
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	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Erewhon (English Library) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Inspired by Samuel Butler's years in colonial New Zealand, and by his reading of Darwin's "Origin of Species", Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs.
		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.
		It was obviously written in a hurry (withholding the author's name) and was partly hacked together from Butler's essays; this is painfully evident in the later section, when you long for the interesting-but-sterile social analysis to end and the plot to move on.
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	Canterbury Writers: Samuel Butler - Christchurch City Libraries
		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.
		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.
		In his cramped cob hut Butler wrote more 'fugitive' work: long entertaining letters to his family, which his father complied as A First Year in the Canterbury Settlement (1863) and a journal, later edited by P. Maling as Samuel Butler at Mesopotamia (1960) each giving vivid and perceptive accounts of the pioneering experience.
	library.christchurch.org.nz /Heritage/LocalHistory/CanterburyWriters/samuel_butler.asp (314 words)

	The San Antonio College LitWeb Samuel " Hudibras " Butler Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This Samuel Butler is sometimes called Hudibras Butler to distinguish him from
		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.
		Samuel Johnson, " The Life of Butler " in Lives of the Poets
	www.accd.edu /sac/english/bailey/butlerhu.htm (102 words)

	Butler, Samuel on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Erewhon de Samuel Butler (1835-1902) y los origenes de la filosofia de la tecnologia.(Reseña de libro)
		Return of Kindred spirits: an anniversary for Octavia E. Butler is a time for reflection and rejoicing for fans of speculative fiction.
		Samuel L. Jackson fulfills a dream with `Star Wars' role.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b/butlrs11835.asp (471 words)

	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.
		After years of determined effort, Butler realized his artistic talents were limited at best and, at a friend's suggestion, turned to writing.
		Samuel Butler died in London on June 18, 1902.
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	Amazon.com: Books: The Way of All Flesh (Modern Library Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		But Samuel Butler spoke from experience: when he was in his twenties, he escaped to New Zealand and took up sheep-farming, of all things.
		Butler is a bridge between the Victorian and 20th century novelist--although the book has some of the heavily stylized writing of the 19th century, the thinking is pure 20th.
		Samuel Butler wrote in a "no-holds-barred" style that attacked the Victorian era at its core.
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	Samuel Butler
		Butler, yet he could be fair in the appraisal of his poetry.
		He says he got them from Butler himself but, in the confusion of their cups, mistakes might be expected.
		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.
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	Samuel Butler Quotes - The Quotations Page
		When you have told anyone you have left him a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
		All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
		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.
	www.quotationspage.com /quotes.php3?author=Samuel+Butler (381 words)

	Samuel Butler: A Sketch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Butler's father, after being at school at Shrewsbury under Dr. Butler, went up to St. John's College, Cambridge; he took his degree in 1829, being seventh classic and twentieth senior optime; he was ordained and returned to Shrewsbury, where he was for some time assistant master at the school under Dr. Butler.
		He speaks of them in an article headed "Samuel Butler and the Simeonites," and signed A. in the 'Cambridge Magazine', 1st March, 1913; the first is "a genuine Simeonite tract; the other two are parodies.
		In the Reading Room at the Museum he sat at Block B ("B for Butler") and spent an hour "posting his notes"--that is reconsidering, rewriting, amplifying, shortening, and indexing the contents of the little note-book he always carried in his pocket.
	www.blackmask.com /books13c/sambt.htm (10545 words)

	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, 1835-1902: free web books, online
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