Презентация на тему Samuel Butler

is remembered now chiefly for a longsatirical poem entitled

Hudibras.

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.

under Henry Bright whose teaching is recorded favourably by

Thomas Fuller, a contemporary writer, in his Worthies of England. In early youth he was a servant to the Countess of Kent.

to Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery, Lord President

of Wales, which entailed living at least a year in Ludlow, Shropshireuntil January 1662 while he was paying craftsmen working on repairing the castle there.

which he began writing when lodging at Holborn,London in

1658 and continued to work on while in Ludlow, was published, and the other two in 1664 and 1678 respectively. One early purchaser of the first two parts was Samuel Pepys. While the diarist acknowledged that the book was the "greatest fashion" he could not see why it was found to be so witty.

offered a place at Court. However, Butler is thought

to have been in the employment of the Duke of Buckingham in the summer of 1670, and accompanied him on a diplomatic mission to France. Butler also received financial support in the form of a grant from King Charles II.

Also, a monument to him was placed in Westminster

Abbey in 1732 by a printer with the surname Barber, and the Lord Mayor of London.

was very popular in its time, and several of

its phrases have passed into the dictionary. It was sufficiently popular to spawn imitators. Hudibras takes some of its characterization from Don Quixote but unlike that work, it has many more references to personalities and events of the day.

Skelton and Paul Scarron's Virgile travesti; a satire on

classical literature, particularly Virgil. Hudibras was reprinted many times in the centuries following Butler's death. Two of the more noteworthy editions are those edited by Zachery Grey (1752) and Treadway Russell Nash (1793). The standard edition of the work was edited by John Wilders (1967).

until they were collected and published by Robert Thyer

in 1759. Butler wrote many shortbiographies, epigrams and verses the earliest surviving from 1644. Of his verses, the best known is "The Elephant on the Moon", about a mouse trapped in a telescope, a satire on Sir Paul Neale of the Royal Society.