Mock-heroic poem · 1663–1678

Hudibras

In Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars

by Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler's mock-heroic satire on the Puritans and the Civil War, in which the knight Sir Hudibras and his squire Ralpho ride out to reform the world and are beaten, jailed and humbled in galloping octosyllabic couplets.

Contents · 12 parts

• Part I, Canto Iabout 930 lines
• Part I, Canto IIabout 1190 lines
• Part I, Canto IIIabout 1390 lines
• Part II, Canto Iabout 930 lines
• Part II, Canto IIabout 890 lines
• Part II, Canto IIIabout 1200 lines
• An Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to Sidrophelabout 130 lines
• Part III, Canto Iabout 1610 lines
• Part III, Canto IIabout 1700 lines
• Part III, Canto IIIabout 800 lines
• An Heroical Epistle of Hudibras to His Ladyabout 360 lines
• The Lady's Answer to the Knightabout 380 lines

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