Samuel Butler (1612-1680)
See also: Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (born the December 4th 1612 - died the June 18th 1680) is a Poète English. Among its works, characteristic of the Literature of the English Restoration, one remembers mainly Hudibras , a satirical length Poème and Burlesque on the Puritanisme.
He was initially clerk in a Justice of the Peace. Having early made known probed for poetry, it was attached to the house of the Duchesse of Kent, which left him freedom be delivered to the studies of its taste, then occupied an employment at Samuel Luke, dedicated puritan and in favor of Cromwell. With the Restoration, he became intendant of the castle of Ludlow (1660).
Butler, with the advent of the English Restoration, became the secretary of the Lord-President of the Wales, and married about the same time certain Mrs. Herbert, widow. In 1663, the first part of Hudibras was published, and the two others respectively followed in 1664 and 1678. Charles II of England appreciated the work largely, and offered to its author a pension.
Butler was a close relation of the duke of Buckingham, at the point to collaborate with him in the creation of the Repetition , a satirical part ridiculing the fashion of the heroic Drame.
In spite of the popularity of Hudibras , Butler was neglected by the court and died in 1680 in poverty, without one being able however to determine if this precarious situation were imposed to him or if it acted of an exile imposed on itself.
Butler is buried with the Abbaye of Westminster. A plate was in addition affixed in memory on the small church of its native village of Strensham, close to Upton-upon-Severn.
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