Samuel Butler was an English farmer's son born in 1612 who is best remembered for his satirical poem "Hudibras". The poem is a mock heroic narrative written in three parts between 1663-1678 that parodies Puritan fanaticism through the adventures of the knight Hudibras and his squire Ralpho. Though initially popular for its attacks on Puritans, the poem offers a more complex satire and was greatly influential being one of the first great works of English poetic satire.

1. Topic: Samuel Butler

3.  Born: 1612 Death: 1680
 Samuel Butler is remembered now chiefly
for a long satirical poem titled “Hudibras”
 He was the son of farmer who befriended
Thomas Hobbes and Sir William D Averant.

4.  Hudibras is an English mock heroic
narrative poem from the 17th century
written by Samuel Butler.
 Hudibras is perhaps the first great
poetic satire in english.
 This burlesque romance is of three
parts:
 First Part – 1663
 Second Part- 1664
 Third Part – 1678

5.  It was delightedly acclaimed at court of Charles II
as a brilliant attack on the Puritans, but in facts it
was something more complex and more interesting
than that.
 Hudibras is painly modeled upon the Don Quixote
of Cervates, the wonderful Spanish burlesque
romance.
 Hudibras was written in an iambic tetramer in
closed coupltes with suprising rhymes.
 It describes the adventures of a fanatical justice of
peace, Sir Hudibras and of his squire, Ralpho in
their endeavor to put down all innocent pleasure.

6.  In Hudibras and Ralpho the two
extreme types of the Puritan
party, Presbyterians and
independents are mercilessly
ridiculed.
 When the poem first appeared
in public, in 1663 after
circulating secretly for years in
manuscript, it became at once
enormously popular.

7.  HUDIBRAS (The Knight)
 RALPHO (The Squire)
 SIDROPHEL (The
Astrologer)
 THE WIDOW(Hudibras
tries to woo her)

8.  Hudibras is Presbyterian Knight, thick and stout.
He has an orange browny colour beards, always
carries extra food.
 Ralpho is a tailor by trade, but his belief in the
efficacy of divine revelations to the individual
makes him something of a religious oracle.

9.  Crowdero, a fiddler with a wooden leg.
 Orsin, leader of beak keeper.
 Talgol, a butcher.