Mock-heroic English poems

satiric poem by Lord Byron

nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll

poem by Alexander Pope

Middle English poem by Chaucer

poem by Alexander Pope

1389 poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

a tale from The Canterbury Tales

poem

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.