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Ebenezer Cooke
English/ American poet · Writers · Lived 1667 to 1732 · aged 65
Ebenezer Cooke was a poet from the Thirteen Colonies. Probably born in London, he became a lawyer in Maryland, then an English colony, where he wrote a number of poems including one that some scholars consider the first American satire: "The Sot-Weed Factor: Or, a Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr" (1708).
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He was 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.
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1667 to 1732 · aged 65
