Charles Goodall (poet) explained

Charles Goodall (1671 – 11 May 1689^[1]) is a minor English poet.^[2] A student of Eton College and then Merton College, Oxford, he wrote a number of romantic and erotic poems referring to male students at said colleges. In 1689, the year of his death, he put together a collection entitled Poems and Translations which contains 33 poems with male-male subject matter, eleven regarding women, and 13 to a mistress named 'Idera' (considered probably imaginary). A number of the homoerotic poems have been rewritten to remove the same-sex subject matter.^[3]

Goodall's father—Dr. Charles Goodall—was a London physician.^[4]

Notes and References

1. Book: Anthony Wood. Appendix to the History and Antiquities of the Colleges and Halls in the University of Oxford: Containing Fasti Oxonienses. Or a Commentary on the Supreme Magistrates of the University .... 1790. Clarendon Press. 214.
2. Book: George Watson. Ian R. Willison. New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 1971. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-07934-1. 1968.
3. Book: Same Sex Desire in Early Modern England, 1550–1735: An Anthology of Literary Texts and Contexts. 23 July 2013. Manchester University Press. Marie H. Loughlin. 9780719082085. 385.
4. Book: Kenneth Dewhurst. Dr. Thomas Sydenham (1624-1689): His Life and Original Writings. 1 January 1966. University of California Press. 39. GGKEY:93CBNAW75NF.