Googe, Barnabe (1540 - 1594)



Available works:

Sans titre (Once musing as I sat...)
Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind (The oftener seen, the more I lust,...)
At Bonneval (O fond Affection, wounder of my heart...)
Coming Homeward out of Spain (O raging seas, and Mighty Neptune's reign...)
Epitaph on the Death of Nicholas Grimald (An) (Behold this fleeting world, how all things fade...)
Of Money (Give money me, take friendship whoso list...)
To Doctor Bale (Good agèd Bale, that with thy hoary hairs...)
To L. Blundeston (Some men be counted wise that well can talk...)


Barnabe Googe wrote poems in the Native Tradition, a species of plain style. In this relatively early period, accents were heavy, unaccents were light, alliteration survived from old Anglo-Saxon verse, and the subject was usually serious. Later poets, like Fulke Greville and Ben Jonson, fused the best of the Native Tradition with the prosodic sophistication of the Petrarchan poets.

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