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May 2025
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A Parody of Pomposity: Samuel Butler's H...

M. G. McDonough
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Today, a bit of a genealogy of a now little read mock epic -- Samuel Butler's Hudibras -- which takes Chaucer and Spenser and Jonson and Cervantes, mixes them all up into a gloopy goo, and sprays it all over lemon-sucking Puritans!

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