Editing James Cook (section)

===Culture===
Cook has been a subject in many literary creations. [[Letitia Elizabeth Landon]], a popular poet known for her sentimental romantic poetry,<ref>{{cite web |last=Jacolbe |first=Jessica |date=23 May 2019 |title=Life of Forgotten Poet Letitia Elizabeth Landon |url=https://daily.jstor.org/on-the-life-of-forgotten-poet-letitia-elizabeth-landon/ |access-date=9 October 2022 |website=Jstor Daily |archive-date=9 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221009122415/https://daily.jstor.org/on-the-life-of-forgotten-poet-letitia-elizabeth-landon/ |url-status=live}}</ref> published a poetical illustration to a portrait of Captain Cook in 1837.<ref>{{cite book 
|last=Landon
 |first=Letitia Elizabeth
 |title=Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book, 1838
 |url=https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=49BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA68
 |year=1837 
|publisher=Fisher, Son & Co.
 |chapter=James Cook
|page=23
|access-date=10 October 2022 
|archive-date=10 October 2022 
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221010033952/https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=49BbAAAAQAAJ&pg=GBS.PA68 
|url-status=live
}}</ref> In 1931, [[Kenneth Slessor]]'s poem "[[Five Visions of Captain Cook]]" was the "most dramatic break-through" in Australian poetry of the 20th century according to poet [[Douglas Stewart (poet)|Douglas Stewart]].<ref>Herbert C. Jaffa, ''Kenneth Slessor: A Critical Study'', Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1977, p. 20.</ref> Cook has been depicted in numerous films, documentaries and dramas.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/05-2017/captain_cook_obsesson_and_discovery_tn.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240126131107/https://www.nfsa.gov.au/sites/default/files/05-2017/captain_cook_obsesson_and_discovery_tn.pdf |archive-date=26 January 2024 |url-status=live |title=Teacher's Notes: Captain Cook – Obession and Discovery |publisher=National Film and Sound Archive of Australia |access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/reviews/2009/12/10/the-futons-first-look-captain-cooks-extraordinary-atlas-abc-33808/20091210_captaincooksextraordinaryatlas/ 
|title= The Futon's First Look: "Captain Cook's Extraordinary Atlas" (ABC)
 |website=www.TheFutonCritic.com 
|access-date=26 January 2024
 |archive-date=12 March 2024
 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240312061805/http://www.thefutoncritic.com/reviews/2009/12/10/the-futons-first-look-captain-cooks-extraordinary-atlas-abc-33808/20091210_captaincooksextraordinaryatlas/
 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
 |url=https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/cooked |title=Cooked (Film) |first=Jens |last=Korff |date=17 July 2022 |website=Creative Spirits |access-date=26 January 2024 |archive-date=26 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240126131106/https://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/cooked |url-status=live}}</ref>

Cook appears as a symbolic and generic figure in several [[Australian Aboriginal religion and mythology|Aboriginal myths]], often from regions where Cook did not encounter Aboriginal people.<ref name=Maddock/> Cook is usually portrayed as the bringer of Western colonialism to Australia and is presented as a villain who brings immense social change.<ref name=Maddock>{{cite book 
|last=Maddock 
|first=Kenneth
|author-link=Ken Maddock
|chapter=Myth, History and a Sense of Oneself 
|editor-last=Beckett 
|editor-first=Jeremy
|title=Past and Present: The Construction of Aboriginality
|publisher=Aboriginal Studies Press 
|year=1988 
|pages=11–30 
|isbn=0-85575-190-8
|chapter-url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Past_and_Present/-yGEAwAAQBAJ 
|access-date=27 May 2025
}}</ref>