Hogg grew up in rural Ettrick Forest in a notable family of
tradition-bearers, and in his first major poetry collection "The
Mountain Bard" of 1807 he claims his rightful position at the
centre of that culture. Whereas Scott collected the "Minstrelsy of
the Scottish Border" Hogg was the sole author of "The Mountain
Bard," He learned to negotiate the erudite print culture of
Edinburgh with the literary ballad, sometimes helped and sometimes
hindered by his powerful friend, shifting the shape of his earlier
manuscript and periodical poems accordingly. Then in 1821, when he
was an established literary man, he published a revised edition in
keeping with his new professional status as Author of "The Queen's
Wake," The present edition prints together, for the first time, the
surviving pre-1807 versions of poems included in "The Mountain
Bard," the full 1807 collection, and the complete 1821 version. The
Introduction (besides giving a full history of this complex,
changing work) places it firmly within the eighteenth-century
antiquarian projects of ballad-collecting and the intellectual
currents of Romanticism, in particular the literary vogue for the
ballad shown in works such as "Lyrical Ballads" (1798) by
Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Visit the James Hogg Society website to find out more about
Hogg.
Available in Paperback:
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Shepherd's Calendar
Tales of the Wars of Montrose
The Three Perils of Woman
Winter Evening Tales
Anecdotes of Scott
The Queen's Wake
Altrive Tales
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The Shepherd's Calendar
The Three Perils of Woman
Tales of the Wars of Montrose
LaySermons
Queen Hynde
Anecdotes of Scott
The Spy
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (First Series)
The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (Second Series)
Winter Evening Tales
The Queen's Wake
Altrive Tales
The Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 1, 1800-1819
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