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Samuel Butler

1612 - 1680

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Samuel Butler (baptized 14 February 1613 – 25 September 1680) was an English poet and satirist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Samuel Butler has received more than 53,313 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Samuel Butler is the 1,186th most popular writer (up from 1,302nd in 2019), the 889th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,033rd in 2019) and the 105th most popular British Writer.

Samuel Butler is most famous for his satirical novel, "Erewhon," in which he criticizes Victorian society and the Church of England.

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  • 60.51

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 13.59

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  • 1.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The fair haven
1873
Life and habit
1878
Erewhon; or, Over the range
1872
Erewhon
1872
The Notebooks of Samuel Butler
What has contemporary China inherited from its revolutionary past? How do the realities and memories, aesthetics and practices of the Mao era still reverberate in the post-Mao cultural landscape? The essays in this volume propose red legacies as a new critical framework from which to examine the profusion of cultural productions and afterlives of the communist revolution in order to understand Chinaâe(tm)s continuities and transformations from socialism to postsocialism. Organized into five partsâe"red foundations, red icons, red classics, red bodies, and red shadowsâe"the bookâe(tm)s interdisciplinary contributions focus on visual and performing arts, literature and film, language and thought, architecture, museums, and memorials. Mediating at once unfulfilled ideals and unmourned ghosts across generations, red cultural legacies suggest both inheritance and debt, and can be mobilized to support as well as to critique the status quo.
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The Way of All Flesh
1900

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Samuel Butler ranks 1,186 out of 7,302. Before him are John Jacob Astor IV, Ephraim Kishon, Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, Jacint Verdaguer, Namdev, and Meng Haoran. After him are Sophia Tolstaya, Laura Marx, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Marcus Manilius, Emmanuelle Arsan, and Solomon Northup.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1612, Samuel Butler ranks 9. Before him are Wu Sangui, Louis Le Vau, Saskia van Uylenburgh, Antoine Arnauld, Pierre Mignard, and Şehzade Bayezid. After him are Jeremi Wiśniowiecki, Peter Stuyvesant, Claude Françoise de Lorraine, Odoardo Farnese, Duke of Parma, Janusz Radziwiłł, and Margherita de' Medici. Among people deceased in 1680, Samuel Butler ranks 13. Before him are Jan Swammerdam, Willem Claesz. Heda, Ferdinand Bol, Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine, Elisabeth of the Palatinate, and Emperor Go-Mizunoo. After him are John Eudes, Tokugawa Ietsuna, La Voisin, John George II, Elector of Saxony, Ivan Sirko, and Johann Heinrich Schmelzer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 889 out of 8,785. Before him are Harthacnut I of Denmark (880), Olave Baden-Powell (1889), Derek Barton (1918), Philip Noel-Baker (1889), Rodney Robert Porter (1917), and Mick Taylor (1949). After him are Rob Halford (1951), Charles Lightoller (1874), Eugen d'Albert (1864), Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Æthelberht, King of Wessex (836), and Mike Newell (1942).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Samuel Butler ranks 105. Before him are John Berger (1926), Dylan Thomas (1914), E. M. Forster (1879), John William Polidori (1795), Bernard Cornwell (1944), and Edmund Spenser (1552). After him are Elizabeth Gaskell (1810), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), James Anderson (1680), David Irving (1938), John Dryden (1631), and Arthur Hailey (1920).

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