The cottage in Strensham, Worcestershire, England, where Samuel Butler (1613-1680) was born. He was a poet and satirist, remembered for a long satirical poem titled Hudibras, the most memorable burlesque poem in the English language and the first English satire to make a notable and successful attack on ideas rather than on personalities. It is directed against the fanaticism, pretentiousness, pedantry, and hypocrisy that Butler saw in militant Puritanism, extremes which he attacked wherever he saw them.

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Location: Strensham, Worcestershire, England
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