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Robert Gould

d. 1709?

Robert Gould (died about 1709) was an English poet and satirist of the Restoration. Little is securely known of his early life; he is generally said to have risen from domestic service in a noble household, and to have won the patronage of the Earl of Dorset and other grandees, several of whom he addresses in his verse.

He made his name with Love Given O'er (1682), a savage satire on women that provoked printed replies, followed by The Play-House (1685) and A Satyr upon Man. His collected Poems, chiefly consisting of Satyrs and Satyrical Epistles (1689) joined these to love songs, verse letters, funeral elegies and pindarick odes. He also wrote plays, and a posthumous Works appeared in 1709.

Poems (56)

  1. Fatal Constancy
  2. No Life if no Love
  3. Pity, if you'd be pity'd
  4. The reasonable Request
  5. The Hopeless Comfort
  6. The Fruitless Caution
  7. The Wanderer fixt
  8. The unwilling Inconstant
  9. Nothing wanting to Love
  10. The Result of Loving
  11. Prescription for Falshood
  12. The Captive
  13. To Caelia desiring his Absence
  14. An Expostulation for discover'd Love; which yet could not be conceal'd
  15. The vain Pursuit
  16. Love and Despair
  17. The Hopeless Lover
  18. Silvia in the Country, 1682
  19. Silvia, Luke-warm
  20. Silvia, Perjur'd
  21. To my Lord E., Eldest Son to the Marquess of H.
  22. To the Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, upon his Marriage with the Lady Mary Compton
  23. To Sir Edward Nevil Baronet, upon his Marriage
  24. To my unknown Brother, Mr. R. R. hearing he was happily Marry'd
  25. To G. G. C. Esq upon the Report of his being dead
  26. To P. A. Esq on his Poems and Translations, &c
  27. To Mr G. F., then in the Country. Writ in 1681
  28. To the Countess of Abingdon
  29. To my Lady Anne Bainton, on the 28th of April, 1688
  30. To Mrs H. Key
  31. Absence
  32. Prologue design'd for a Play of mine
  33. On the new Edition of Godfrey of Bulloigne, in 1687
  34. The True Fast. A Paraphrase on the 58th of Isaiah
  35. The Harlot. A Paraphrase on the 7th of Proverbs
  36. To Madam G. with Mrs Phillips's Poems
  37. To Madam Beaw. Occasion'd by a Copy of Verses of my Lady Ann Bainton's
  38. Instructions to a Young Lady
  39. To the Memory of Mr John Oldham
  40. To the Memory of Edmund Waller Esq
  41. To the Memory of Colonel Edward Cooke
  42. To the Memory of Mrs M. Peachley
  43. To the Society of the Beaux Esprits. Ode
  44. To the Earl of Abingdon. Ode
  45. Sacred to the Memory of our late Sovereign Lord King Charles the Second
  46. Love given over; or, A Satyr against Woman
  47. The Play-House. A Satyr
  48. A Satyr upon Man
  49. The Laureat. A Satyr
  50. A Consolatory Epistle to a Friend made unhappy by Marriage; or, A Scourge for ill Wives
  51. To Jack Pavy
  52. To Julian, Secretary to the Muses. A Consolatory Epistle in his Confinement
  53. To the Much honoured and my dear Friend, D. D. Esquire, sent him with my Satyr against Woman
  54. To the Ingenious, and my Dear Friend, Mr J. Knight
  55. To my Lord of Abingdon
  56. To the Reverend Mr Francis Henry Cary, upon my fixing in the Country

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