{"id":2929,"date":"2014-07-05T03:29:11","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=2929"},"modified":"2017-06-01T07:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T14:46:35","slug":"facts-about-samuel-butler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/facts-about-samuel-butler\/","title":{"rendered":"Facts About Samuel Butler (1835 &#8211; 1902)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2930 size-full alignright\" style=\"margin-right: 40px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Samuel_Butler2.jpg\" alt=\"Samuel Butler\" width=\"312\" height=\"298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Samuel_Butler2.jpg 312w, https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Samuel_Butler2-300x286.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 312px) 100vw, 312px\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samuel Butler, the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=Erewhon\">Erewhon<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/quote_title_resp.php?TName=The%20Way%20of%20All%20Flesh\">The Way of All Flesh<\/a><\/em> was born in December of 1835.<\/li>\n<li>He was born\u00a0<span style=\"color: #252525;\">in the village of\u00a0<\/span>Langar in\u00a0<span style=\"color: #252525;\">England.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>He didn&#8217;t get along well with his parents. \u00a0He found the relationship with his father particularly troubling. \u00a0He noted of his father that, <span style=\"color: #252525;\">&#8220;He never liked me, nor I him; from my earliest recollections I can call to mind no time when I did not fear him and dislike him\u2026. I have never passed a day without thinking of him many times over as the man who was sure to be against me.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Butler graduated from Cambridge in 1858.<\/li>\n<li>After his graduation, Samuel&#8217;s father wanted him\u00a0to become a priest. \u00a0However a crisis of faith lead Samuel\u00a0down a different path. \u00a0He emigrated to New Zealand and raised sheep instead. \u00a0He returned to England in 1864.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #252525;\">Butler made prose translations of the\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #252525;\">Iliad<\/i><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><i style=\"color: #252525;\">Odyssey<\/i><span style=\"color: #252525;\">\u00a0which remain in use to this day.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>He died on June 18, 1902 in London.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Way of All Flesh<\/em> is a semi-autobiographical novel and was published posthumously.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Butler was born in December of 1835 in the village of Langar in England.  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