Samuel Butler, 1835-1901
Biographical note
Author, educated at Shrewsbury and Cambridge, wrote two satirical books, Erewhon (nowhere) (1872), and Erewhon Revisited (1901). He translated the Iliad and Odyssey in prose, and mooted the theory that the latter was written by a woman. Other works were The Fair Haven, Life and Habit, The Way of all Flesh (a novel) (1903), etc., and some sonnets. He also wrote on the Sonnets of Shakespeare.
[From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin, 1910]
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Works
- A First Year in Canterbury Settlement. [1863] [ read | download ]
- The Fair Haven. A work in defence of the miraculous element in Our Lord’s Ministry on earth. By the late John Pickard Owen. Edited by W. B. Owen, with a Memoir by the Author. [Entirely written by Butler] [1873]
- Life and Habit. [1877]
- Evolution, old and new; or, the theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin. [1879. 2nd edn., with an appendix and index. 1882. New edn. (third), with author’s revisions, appendix and index 1911]
- Unconscious Memory: a comparison between the theory of Dr. Ewald Hering … and the Philosophy of the Unconscious of Dr. Edward von Hartmann; with translations from these authors, and preliminary chapters bearing on Life and Habit, Evolution, old and new, and Charles Darwin’s edn. of Dr. Krause’s Erasmus Darwin. [1880]
- Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton of Ticino. [1881] [ read | download ]
- Luck or Cunning, as the main means of Organic Modification? An attempt to throw additional light upon the late Charles Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection. [1886].
- Ex Voto: an account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia. With some notice of Tabachetti’s remaining at the Sanctuary of Crea. [1888]
- The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Headmaster of Shrewsbury School, 1798–1836 … in so far as they illustrate the scholastic, religious, and social life of England, 1790–1840. [1896]
- The Authoress of the Odyssey, where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands [1897]
- The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English prose. [1898] [ read | download ]
- The Odyssey, rendered into English prose [1900] [ read | download ]
- Erewhon; or Over the Range. [1872. New and revised edn. 1901.] [ read | download ]
- The Way of all Flesh [1903] [ read | download ]
- Essays on Life, Art and Science. [1904]
Contents: Introduction Quis Desiderio? -- Ramblings in Cheapside -- The Aunt, The Nieces, and the Dog -- How to make the best of life -- The Sanctuary of Montrigone -- A Medieval Girl School -- Art in the Valley of Saas -- Thought and Language -- The Deadlock in Darwinism - The Notebooks of Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon. Selections arranged and ed. by Henry Festing Jones, H. F. [1912]
- Canterbury Pieces
Contents: Darwin on the Origin of Species -- A Dialogue -- Barrel-Organs -- Letter: 21 Feb 1863 -- Letter: 14 Mar 1863 -- Letter: 18 Mar 1863 -- Letter: 11 Apr 1863 -- Letter: 22 June 1863 -- Darwin Among the Machines -- A note on "The Tempest" -- The English Cricketers - Cambridge Pieces
Contents: On English Composition and Other Matters -- Our Tour -- Translation from an Unpublished Work of Herodotus -- The shield of Achilles, with variations -- Prospectus of the Great Split -- Society -- Powers -- A skit on examinations -- An Eminent Person -- Napoleon at St. Helena -- The Two Deans -- The Battle of Alma Mater -- On the Italian Priesthood -- Samuel Butler and the Simeonites. - God the Known and God the Unknown
- Erewhon Revisited twenty years later, both by the original discoverer of the country and his son. [1901, 1908]
