Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SAMUEL ELIOT MORISON Boston
...SAMUEL BUTLER (242 pp.)-Philip Henderson-Indiana University...
...first quarrels with his father about three quarters of a year before he is born. It is then he insists on setting up a separate establishment." With this provocative generalization, written 80 years ago in The Way of All Flesh, Samuel Butler not only supplied the main clue to his own character but set hissing the long fuse at whose other end stood that grand, portentous chunk of dynamite, the Victorian father. But Butler's masterpiece was only published after his death (1902), and it was not until the rebellious '20s that his Way of All Flesh became...
Philip Henderson's new biography of Samuel Butler expresses perfectly the new trend in paterology. It is also the first book on Butler in which the father-son relationship is examined coolly, justly and with malice toward none...
...furor never let up. If it had not been for the Bread and Butter Rebellion in 1805 and the Cabbage Rebellion in 1807, the administration of Samuel Webber might have been forgotten. But it was during the Great Rebellion of 1818 that a whole class was expelled. It was at this time that "The Rebelliad" was written...