Googe's ecologues are, with Barclay's, the first examples of the form in English, anticipating in several respects Spenser'sShepheardes CalendarIn this new edition Judith Kennedy offers a modernized text, with introduction, commentary, and textual apparatus.
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(1540-1594) was a poet and translator, one of the earliest English pastoral poets. KennedyJudith: < >Judith M. Kennedy is a professor emerita of St. Thomas University. She is the author of a critical edition of Yong's translation of Montemayor'sDiana and Gil Polo'sEnamoured Diana, and co-editor ofA Theatre for Spenserians.
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