The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr.

Name: The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr.
Author: Ebenezer Cooke

by Ebenezer Cooke

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The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland. A Satyr. In which is Describ'd The Laws, Government, Courts and Constitutions of the Country, and also the Buildings, Feasts, Frolicks, Entertainments and Drunken Humours of the Inhabitants of that Part of America. In Burlesque Verse.

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Library of Congress)

Release date

2007-05-07

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Public domain in the USA.

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Maryland -- Description and travel -- Poetry F106

About the author

Ebenezer Cooke

Best known for the biting poem The Sot-Weed Factor, this early American writer turned a trip to colonial Maryland into a sharp, funny satire. His work is often remembered as one of the first notable satirical poems written in British North America.

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