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Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was a poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras , directed against religious sectarianism. The poem 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. Butler was also influenced by satirists such as John 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. Hudibras is a mock-heroic narrative poem upon the Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War. According to the title page, the work was begun during the war and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678, with the first edition encompassing all three parts appearing in 1684. Published only four years after the restoration of Charles II, and Cromwell's Protectorate completely over, the poem found an appreciative audience. As Butler was fiercely royalist, his satire is not balanced and only the parliamentarian side are singled out for ridicule. It is also used as a vehicle for parodying some of the dreadful poetry of the time. The work is clearly influenced by Cervantes' Don Quixote, but whereas Cervantes' noble knight, although being mocked, is supposed to draw readers' sympathies, Butler's Sir Hudibras is offered nothing but derision. Hudibras has been reprinted many times in the centuries following Butler's death but most of his other writings never saw print until they were collected posthumously by the writer and literary editor Robert Thyer in 1759
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