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unusual facts about Ebenezer Cooke



Piscataway, Maryland

The poem "The Sot-Weed Factor," by Ebenezer Cooke, mentions details of life in Piscataway during ancient times.

The Sot-Weed Factor

It tells the story of an English poet named Ebenezer Cooke who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert.


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The Sot-Weed Factor

A satirical epic set in the 1680s–90s in London and colonial Maryland, the novel tells of a fictionalized Ebenezer Cooke, who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a Marylandiad to sing the praises of the colony.