Charles Goodall (1671 – 11 May 1689) was an English poet. A student of

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and then

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, 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. Goodall's father—Dr. Charles Goodall—was a London physician.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Goodall, Charles 1671 births 1689 deaths English LGBTQ poets English male poets Alumni of Merton College, Oxford