SOURCE: Eccles, Mark. “Barnabe Googe in England, Spain, and Ireland.” English Literary Renaissance 15, no. 3 (autumn 1985): 353-70.

In the following essay, Eccles reviews Googe's life and principal writings.

“Most of the good poems written in the two decades following the appearance of Tottel's Miscellany in 1557,” as Douglas L. Peterson says, “are to be found among the works of Barnabe Googe, George Turbervile, and George Gascoigne.”¹ Edwin A. Greenlaw pointed out possible influences of Googe's Eglogs (1563) on Spenser's Shepheardes Calender, including the strong religious element, the complaint against the times and the evils of court life, and the use of archaisms.² Rosemond Tuve and J. E. Hankins studied the many echoes in Spenser and Shakespeare of Googe's version of Palingenius.³ But the account of Googe in DNB is full of errors, and the first careful study of his life and works was made by Brooke Peirce in his unpublished Harvard...