• Hudibrastic is a type of English verse named for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, published in parts from 1663 to 1678. For the poem, Butler invented a mock-heroic...
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    The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror was a British fortnightly magazine of humorous and satirical prints, first issued in 1806 by London publisher...
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    602–661 Edward C. Appel, "Burlesque drama as a rhetorical genre: The hudibrastic ridicule of William F. Buckley Jr.", Western Journal of Communication...
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  • gave rise to a particular verse form, commonly called the "Hudibrastic". The Hudibrastic is poetry in closed rhyming couplets in iambic tetrameter, where...
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    (1731–32). For more about the development and use of Hudibrastic verse after Butler, see Hudibrastic. Jones, Daniel; Roach, Peter (2006). James Hartman;...
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  • rhymes in Shakespeare's sonnet above, rolling, trolling, and doting. The Hudibrastic relies upon feminine rhyme for its comedy, and limericks will often employ...
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  • blind boy, once, has cleft the mark. — The Moral (translated—origin?—in Hudibrastic) Kavka, G. S. (1983). "When two 'wrongs' Make a right: an essay on business...
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    known as Hudibrastic verse. It was a formal parody of heroic verse, and it was primarily used for satire. Jonathan Swift would use the Hudibrastic form almost...
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    textiles wallpaper and other merchandise. The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror, an influential English comic series published in London between...
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    (The) Life & Notable Adventures of Don Quixote merrily translated into Hudibrastic Verse Charles Jervas (1742) Tobias Smollett (1755) (revision of Charles...
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    issues) Paper Satire, Underground Comics The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror English England 1806-1818? G.M.Woodward, Thomas Rowlandson, Charles...
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  • However, Samuel Butler also used closed couplets in his iambic tetrameter Hudibrastic verse. "True wit is nature to advantage dressed What oft was thought...
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    Homeric epithet homily Horatian ode Horatian satire hovering accent hubris hudibrastic humor humours hymn hymnal stanza hypallage hyperbaton A figure of speech...
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    Battle between Dr. Farmer and Peter Musgrave, the Cambridge Taylor, in Hudibrastic verse,’ appeared at London in 1792. "Farmer, Richard (FRMR753R)". A Cambridge...
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  • (illustrated with plates by Hogarth). It was reprinted with William Gostling's Hudibrastic version, London, 1872.  This article incorporates text from a publication...
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    eighteen volumes. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1921. Ibid. "'Hudibras' and Hudibrastic Verse", on bartleby.com. Retrieved July 1, 2005. Watt, Ian. The Rise...
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  • were published. In 1766 Potter published The Hobby Horse, a satire in Hudibrastic verse, directed at Garrick. Potter's dramatic criticism was collected...
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    tractors (see Elisha Perkins) which Fessenden advertised in a poem in Hudibrastic verse. The poem, "Terrible Tractoration", was anonymously published in...
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    publish. The few pieces he published were: The South Sea Dream, a poem in Hudibrastic verse. A verse translation from Latin of a broad jeu d'esprit entitled...
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    or, The triumphs of folly The justification The life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos, by Doctor Syntax The Devil upon 2 Sticks in England :...
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  • "Paper War" of 1771–1772 — a literary battle of polemics in doggerel, hudibrastics, and prose — from the rival Whig Society members Hugh Henry Brackenridge...
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    most revolting subject. The first poem, "On a Maggot", is composed in hudibrastics, with a diction obviously Butlerian, and it is followed by facetious...
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  • Trent, J. Erskine, S.P. Sherman, and C. Van Doren. "'Hudibras' and Hudibrastic Verse" in The Cambridge history of English and American literature: An...
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  • Dictionary of National Biography, his doggerel is not without a certain Hudibrastic force, and it frequently contains graphic touches descriptive of modes...
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    &Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha, translated into Hudibrastic Verse in 1711, where the Hudibrastic, which had been born in Samuel Butler's imitation of...
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    relative” to the Anti-Jacobin. Alexander Watson's The Anti-Jacobin, a Hudibrastic Poem in Twenty-one Cantos (1794) had a similar motif and also contained...
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    poet Ebenezer Cooke, and first published in London in 1708. Written in Hudibrastic couplets, the poem is, on its surface, a scathing Juvenalian satire of...
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    into English verse by Alexander Geddes, writing as "H. W. Hopkins" a "Hudibrastic paraphrase". A Sermon, Preached in the Parish Church of Halifax, Before...
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    Attempts at Humour (1803) The Bettyad (1805) The Caricature Magazine or Hudibrastic Mirror (1806–7) (sc Thomas Rowlandson, Isaac Cruikshank, and others,...
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  • early Maryland poem by an unknown author, "The Mousetrap". Written in Hudibrastic couplets, the poem is, on its surface, a scathing Juvenalian satire of...
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