ABSTRACT
BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902) Samuel Butler, when asked for a personal
designation to distinguish himself from several other writers of the same name in the British Museum catalogue, decided on "philosophical writer," an apt summation of his conscious approach to any subject. He was, by turn, a travel writer, novelist, essayist, poet, scientific writer, composer, translator, and painter, although he is most often remembered for Erewhon (1872), a satirical novel, and The Way of All Flesh (1903), an autobiographical fiction.
