googe had begun writing poetry, and found himself in an exciting creative coterie with other young writers, such as jasper heywood and george turberville. during his absence in spain, googe's juvenile poems were sent to the printer by a friend, laurence blundeston. on his return, googe learned of blundeston's actions and reluctantly gave his consent to their publication when he discovered that the printer had already paid for the paper for the print run and the composition was underway. the book appeared in 1563 as "eglogs, epytaphes, and sonettes", with a dedication to william lovelace. before the appearance of his book, no writer in england had ever published his own poetry under his own name; in this, googe was an accidental pioneer.