Googe, BARNABY

Googe, BARNABY, poet, was born about 1540 at Alvingham, in Lincolnshire, studied both at Christ's College, Cambridge, and at New College, Oxford, then travelled on the Continent, joining on his return the household of his relative Sir William Cecil, and becoming one of the gentlemen-pensioners of Queen Elizabeth. He died in the month of February 1594. He was a friend of George Turberville, and resembled, without equalling, him in the manner of his translations and the metres of his poems. His best works are a series of eight eclogues and his Cupido Conquered, which it is not unlikely that Spenser may have seen. A collection of his Eclogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets was published by Edward Arber in 1871.