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The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A S
Ebenezer Cook
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Condemn'd by Fate to way-ward Curse,
Of Friends unkind, and empty Purse;
Plagues worse than fill'd Pandora's Box,
I took my leave of Albion's Rocks:
With heavy Heart, concerned that I
Was forc'd my Native Soil to fly,
And the Old World must bid good-buy
But Heav'n ordain'd it should be so,
And to repine is vain we know:
Freighted with Fools from Plymouth sound
To Mary-Land our Ship was bound,
Where we arrived in dreadful Pain,
Shock'd by the Terrours of the Main;
For full three Months, our wavering Boat,
Did thro' the surley Ocean float,
And furious Storms and threat'ning Blasts,
Both tore our Sails and sprung our Masts;
[Pg 2]
Wearied, yet pleas'd we did escape
Such Ills, we anchor'd at the (a) Cape;
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Very early American Literature which describes a nearly failed attempt at commerce in the colony of Maryland. I will be using this with my class in American Literature this year.
нарешті доперекладав цю невеличку поему 1708 року, яка буде (сподіваюсь) додатком до Барта (він зробив з цієї посередньої 26-сторінкової поеми геніальний роман на 880 сторінок).
Цікавий погляд на Америку кінця 17 ст. - хитрі ділки; аптекарі, що стають адвокатами; квакер, який вірить в Бога, коли йому
Came highly recommended, little short of great
Was looking for insights into early colonial history- very limited but quick read so ha e a shot if you want so insights into the times
Before satirists Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain criticized America for its problems with flatulence and robber barons, the young country, still a nascent colony, had Ebenezer Cook. Far from accepting the notion that early America was a place of opportunity for all—or, perhaps, because of a failed
This poem is a somewhat silly one, but it became the basis for an 800-page novel by John Barth, called The Sot-Weed Factor, which was a truly hilarious adventure in which Barth creates a protagonist character based on the real-life author of this poem, Ebeneezer Cooke, who has himself declared Poet
This is an amusing satire on colonial Maryland about the impressions of someone who has just moved to what they find to be a very primitive and unruly place. It won't take you long to read this and its pretty cute.
The Sot-Weed Factor is an Eighteenth-Century satirical poem written in Hudibrastic couplets about an Englishman who travels to the new American colonies to make his fortune trading in sot-weed (tobacco) only to be shocked by the vulgar behaviors of both the colonists and natives, and flees back to h
It's a poem from the early 1700s. It has some funny material. It isn't really my bag, but I read it prior to reading John Barth's Sot-Weed Factor. I thought it was an appropriate prelude. In all honesty, reading the introduction to Cook's Sot-Weed Factor, it was difficult to say it wasn't a satirica