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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))
    Hudibras 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • (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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    the White House Charles Spence, Scottish poet, stonemason and footman Deb Willet, maid in the household of Samuel Pepys Dorothy Bolden, domestic worker,...
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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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    Kubla Khan (category Poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
    of poet as either being blessed or cursed by imagination, has influenced many works, including Alfred Tennyson's "Palace of Art" and William Butler Yeats's...
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  • Congolese poet and politician (b. 1938) 2010 – Robert Neil Butler, American physician and author (b. 1927) 2012 – Hiren Bhattacharyya, Indian poet and author...
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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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  • American poets have also written poems in the genre—famous examples include Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". Post-Victorian examples include William Butler Yeats's...
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    A national poet or national bard is a poet held by tradition and popular acclaim to represent the identity, beliefs and principles of a particular national...
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    the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years, although his fame has been long eclipsed by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge....
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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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  • namesake of Rutgers University: 17  Eva Rutgers, m. John Provoost: 17  Samuel Provoost (1742–1815), Bishop of the Episcopal Church: 32–33  Maria Provoost...
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