Category
page 1British satirical poems
Don Juan
satiric poem by Lord Byron
The Rape of the Lock
poem by Alexander Pope

The Fable of the Bees
1705 essay by Bernard Mandeville

The Dunciad
poem by Alexander Pope

Absalom and Achitophel
poem by John Dryden
Mac Flecknoe
poem

Hudibras
alt=An engraving depicting Hudibras overcoming a fiddle player and placing him in the stocks. Above the stocks, the fiddle and its case are displayed.|thumb|One of twelve engravings illustrating the adventures of Hudibras by William Hogarth.
Hudibras () is a vigorous satirical poem, written in a mock-heroic style by Samuel Butler (1613–1680), and published in three parts in 1663, 1664 and 1678. The action is set in the last years of the Interregnum, around 1658–60, immediately before the restoration of Charles II as king in May 1660.