The Sot-Weed Factor or A Voyage to Maryland.  A Satyr (1708) - Ebenezer Cook

The Sot-Weed Factor or A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr (1708)

By Ebenezer Cook

  • Release Date: 2010-03-01
  • Genre: Poetry

Description

According to Wikipedia: "Ebenezer Cooke (ca. 1665 – ca. 1732), a London-born poet, wrote what some scholars consider the first American satire: “The Sotweed Factor, or A Voyage to Maryland, A Satyr” (1708). He has been fictionalized by John Barth as the comically innocent protagonist of The Sot-Weed Factor, a novel in which a series of fantastic misadventures leads Cooke to write his poem. As Barth explained, The Sot–Weed Factor began with the title and, of course, Ebenezer Cooke's original poem. . . . Nobody knows where the real chap is buried; I made up a grave for Ebenezer because I wanted to write his epitaph.' "

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