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For the author of
Hudibras
, see
Samuel Butler
.
Samuel Butler
was an iconoclastic Victorian author who published a variety of works, including the Utopian satire
Erewhon
and the posthumous novel
The Way of All Flesh
, his two best-known works, but also extending to examinations of Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art, and works of literary history and criticism. Butler also made prose translations of
The Iliad
and
The Odyssey
which remain in use to this day.
See also:
Samuel H. Butcher
, Anglo-Irish classicist
, who also undertook prose translations of Homer's works (in collaboration with
Andrew Lang
.
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