Author: Goddard, William & Farmer, John S [editor]
Title: A Satirycall Dialogue Or A Sharplye-Invectiue Conference Between Allexander The Great And That Truley Woman Hater Diogynes, Imprinted In The Lowcountryes [? Dort ? 1615] For All Such Gentlewomen As Are Not Altogeather Idle Nor Yet Well, Ocupyed From A Unique Copy In The British Museum
Description: Privately Printed For Subscribers Only, 1892, 1st edition. Quarter leather, G+. xvi+47pp, spine chipped & rubbed with some loss, internally a nice copy. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ About Goddard little is known. A satirist & author of just three books he seems to have lived in the Low Countries [his Neaste Of Wasps was printed in the town of Dort]. His works appeared without the name of the Printer or Publisher being mentioned - this may have been due to failure to obtain a license to print. Goddards Satire is directed at women & marriage. The book takes the form of a dialoge between Alexander the Great & the Philosopher & Barrel dweller, Diogines - Alexander wanting to know why Diogines chooses to live a recluse.

Keywords: satire, renaissance, poetry, poems, literature