“A Lock Without a Key: Satiric Metaphor in Samuel Butler’s Hudibras.” 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era: 2013.
"Butler is the poet who almost single-handedly invents the style of literalizing parody that defines long eighteenth-century satire, an author whose 'satiric persona is not a participant in the social drama like those of Horace or Donne, and not a teacher like the narrator in Juvenal. Butler's satiric narration is a kind of acid into which all materials dissolve.' The concrete vulgarity of images in Hudibras inverts Spenserian poetic technique."