Samuel Butler was an English poet and satirist. He is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras.
Portrait of Butler by Pieter Borsseler
Memorial to Butler, Westminster Abbey
Frontispiece and titlepage of a 1744 illustrated and annotated edition of Butler's Hudibras
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 action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately before the restoration of Charles II as king in May 1660.
First Collected edition of Hudibras by Samuel Butler, 1674–1678
Hudibras Sallies Forth by William Hogarth