Everything you need to understand or teach The Description of Cooke-ham by Aemilia Lanyer.
"The Description of Cooke-Ham" is a long poem by Aemilia Bassanio Lanyer (sometimes spelled Lanier). The poem first appeared in Lanyer's book Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, in 1611. The book was published twice in her lifetime. Because of the poem's reference to Anne Clifford under her married name, Dorset, we know it was written after February 25, 1609, and the poem was entered into the official register on October 2, 1610, so it can be definitively dated within this period. The poem is an extended praise to Cooke-ham, the country estate of Lanyer's patron the Countess of Cumberland, and an elegy for the end of the Countess's time there.
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