Ecologues, Epitaphs and Sonnets
When at the age of twenty-three Barnabe Googe allowed the publication of his Ecologues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets, he became the first English author to publish personal poetry during his lifetime. His ecologues are, with Barclay''s, the first examples of the form in English, anticipating in several respects Spenser''s Shepheardes Calendar. He was the first writer to introduce into English literature ...
When at the age of twenty-three Barnabe Googe allowed the publication of his Ecologues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets, he became the first English author to publish personal poetry during his lifetime. His ecologues are, with Barclay''s, the first examples of the form in English, anticipating in several respects Spenser''s Shepheardes Calendar. He was the first writer to introduce into English literature ...
