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    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...
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  • Samuel Butler may refer to: Samuel Butler (poet) (1613–1680), English poet and satirist Samuel Butler (schoolmaster) (1774–1839), English classical scholar...
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  • Dildoides (category Works by Samuel Butler (poet))
    Dildoides: A Burlesque Poem is a 1706[clarification needed] work by Samuel Butler about a collection of dildos that was seized and destroyed by the authorities...
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  • Hudibras (category Works by Samuel Butler (poet))
    (/ˈhjuːdɪbræs/) is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The...
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    Sir Samuel Ferguson (10 March 1810 – 9 August 1886) was an Irish poet, barrister, antiquarian, artist and public servant. He was an acclaimed 19th-century...
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    LÉ William Butler Yeats (P63) is a Samuel Beckett-class offshore patrol vessel of the Irish Naval Service. Named after poet W. B. Yeats, the ship is the...
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    Not all poets appreciated memorialisation and Samuel Wesley's epitaph for Samuel Butler, who supposedly died in poverty, continued Butler's satiric tone:...
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    William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature...
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    the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies...
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    solicitor and writer, known as the friend and posthumous biographer of Samuel Butler. He was the son of Thomas Jones Q.C., and entered Trinity Hall, Cambridge...
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    Writers Workshop in Clarion, Pennsylvania. There, Butler met the Black science fiction writer Samuel R. Delany, who became a longtime friend. She also...
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    Samuel Barclay Beckett (/ˈbɛkɪt/ ; 13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and...
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    it is mentioned neither by Samuel Butler nor by Andrew Dalby, both of whom have developed the argument that a woman poet was responsible for the Odyssey...
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  • 1967) was a pivotal figure in the history of Irish literary modernism. A poet, he was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963...
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    Samuel R. "Chip" Delany (/dəˈleɪni/, də-LAY-nee; born April 1, 1942) is an American writer and literary critic. His work includes fiction (especially science...
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    Samuel Percival Maitland Hunt CNZM QSM (born 4 July 1946, Castor Bay, Auckland) is a New Zealand poet, especially known for his public performances of...
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  • Forrest Reid and the uranian poet and librarian Charles Sayle. He was editor, with Henry Festing Jones, of the works of Samuel Butler (published 1923–6) and...
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    Ground in Monkmoor, where they hosted 51 matches over 3 years (1886-89). Samuel Butler (1774-1839), headmaster of Shrewsbury School, later Bishop of Lichfield...
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    A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems...
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  • writer Anthony McNeill, poet Brian Meeks, novelist Kei Miller, writer Pamela Mordecai, poet Mervyn Morris, poet Mutabaruka, poet Oku Onuora, writer Geoffrey...
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    Samuel Adams (September 27 [O.S. September 16] 1722 – October 2, 1803) was an American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United...
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  • Epigramist, poet, and playwright Oscar Wilde said that "life is too important to be taken seriously." In a play on words, novelist Samuel Butler indicated...
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  • 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist (d. 1829) 1763 – Samuel Rogers, English poet and art collector (d. 1855) 1781 – Maria Aletta Hulshoff, Dutch...
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  • and satirical poem is the comic poem Hudibras (1662–1674), by Samuel Butler. Butler's poem describes a "trew blew" Puritan knight during the Interregnum...
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  • by Samuel Butler The Dunciad and The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope Halloween (poem) by Robert Burns The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor...
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    Samuel E. Vázquez, styled as Samuel E Vázquez (born Samuel Enrique Vázquez Rivas, 1970), was a participant of the New York City Subway graffiti art movement...
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    Lyric poetry (redirect from Lyric poet)
    The Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore was praised by William Butler Yeats for his lyric poetry; Yeats compared him to the troubadour poets when the two...
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  • (1828–1906), writer and campaigner Samuel Butler (1612–1680), poet and satirist, Hudibras Samuel Butler (1835–1902), writer and satirist, Erewhon Herbert Butterfield...
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    William Davenant (category 17th-century English poets)
    story was recorded by Aubrey from a comment attributed to Davenant by Samuel Butler: Mr. William Shakespeare was wont to go into Warwickshire once a year...
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    actress Florence Farr, the Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, the Welsh author Arthur Machen, and the English authors Evelyn...
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