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GOOGE, BARNABE (1540-1594)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GOOGE, BARNABE (1540-1594) , See also:English poet, son of See also:Robert Googe, See also:recorder of See also:Lincoln, was See also:born on the 1th of See also:June 1540 at Alvingham, See also:Lincolnshire. He studied at See also:Christ's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and at New College, See also:Oxford, but does not seem to have taken a degree at either university. He afterwards removed to See also:Staple's See also:Inn, and was attached to the See also:household of his kinsman, See also:Sir See also:William See also:Cecil. In 1563 he became a See also:gentleman pensioner to See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth. He was absent in See also:Spain when his poems were sent to the printer by a friend, L. Blundeston. Googe then gave his consent, and they appeared in 1563 as Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Soneltes. There is extant a curious See also:correspondence on the subject of his See also:marriage with See also:Mary Darrell, whose See also:father refused Googe's suit on the ground that she was See also:bound 'by a previous See also:contract. The See also:matter was decided by the intervention of Sir William Cecil with See also:Archbishop See also:Parker, and the marriage took See also:place in 1564 or 1565. Googe was See also:provost-See also:marshal of the See also:court of See also:Connaught, and some twenty letters of his in this capacity are preserved in the See also:record See also:office. He died in See also:February 1594. He was an ardent See also:Protestant, and his See also:poetry is coloured by his religious and See also:political views.

In the third " Eglog," for instance, be laments the decay of the old See also:

nobility and the rise of a new See also:aristocracy of See also:wealth, and he gives an indignant See also:account of the sufferings of his co-religionists under Mary. The other eclogues See also:deal with the sorrows of earthly love, leading up to a See also:dialogue between See also:Corydon and Cornix, in which the heavenly love is extolled. The See also:volume includes epitaphs on See also:Nicholas See also:Grimald, See also:John See also:Bale and on See also:Thomas See also:Phaer, whose See also:translation of See also:Virgil Googe is uncritical enough to prefer to the versions of See also:Surrey and of Gavin See also:Douglas. A much more charming See also:pastoral than any of those contained in this volume, " Phyllida was a fayer maid " (Totters See also:Miscellany) has been ascribed to Barnabe Googe. He was one of the earliest English pastoral poets, and the first who was inspired by See also:Spanish See also:romance, being consider-ably indebted to the See also:Diana Enamorada of See also:Montemayor. His other See also:works include a translation from See also:Marcellus Palingenius (said to be an See also:anagram for Pietro Angelo See also:Manzolli) of a satirical Latin poem, Zodiacus vitae (See also:Venice, 1531?), in twelve books, under the See also:title of The Zodyake.of See also:Life (156o); The Popish Kingdome, or reign of See also:Antichrist (1J7o), translated frorn Thomas Kirchmayer or Naogeorgus; The Spiritual Husbandrie from the same author, printed with the last; Foure Bookes of Husbandrie (1577), collected by Conradus Heresbachius; and The Proverbes of . . . See also:Lopes de See also:Mendoza (1579).

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