Editing Cockaigne (section)

=== Literature ===
* "Ego sum abbas Cucaniensis" ("I am the Abbot of Cockaigne") is one of the drinking songs (''Carmina potatoria'') found in the 13th-century manuscript of [[Carmina Burana|''Songs from Benediktbeuern'']], better known for its inclusion in [[Carl Orff]]'s secular cantata, ''[[Carmina Burana (Orff)|Carmina Burana]]'' (1935-36).
* "L'invitation au voyage", a prose-poem by the French poet [[Charles Baudelaire]], found in his collection [[Paris Spleen|''Paris'' ''Spleen'']] (1869), makes reference to the "land of Cocaigne", there envisioned as a country in keeping with Baudelaire's poetic ideals, such as silence, decorum, indolence, and artifice. He describes it as "the East of the West, the China of Europe", as he describes it as being located to the North and as being possessed of qualities thought of as being essentially "Oriental" by the Europeans of the time.
* The [[Land of Toys]] (or Pleasure Island) from ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' (1883) is said to be located in Cockaigne.
* [[James Branch Cabell]] in his ''[[Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice]]'' (1919), has the land of Cocaigne between the lands of sunrise and morning. ch XXIV. "Thus Jurgen abode for a little over two months in Cocaigne, and complied with the customs of that country. Nothing altered in Cocaigne: but in the world wherein Jurgen was reared, he knew, it would by this time be September, with the leaves flaring gloriously, and the birds flocking southward, and the hearts of Jurgen's fellows turning to not unpleasant regrets. But in Cocaigne there was no regret and no variability, but only an interminable flow of curious pleasures, illumined by the wandering star of Venus Mechanitis."<ref>https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8771 ''Jurgen: a Comedy of Justice''</ref>
* [[Clark Ashton Smith]] wrote a romantic prose poem titled [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ebony_and_Crystal/In_Cocaigne "In Cocaigne"] (1922).
* “The Land of Cockaigne” is the first poem in the 2015 book ''The Emperor of Water Clocks'' by [[Yusef Komunyakaa]], an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1994.