The Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic
poetry. It focuses on the return of Mary, Queen of Scots to
Scotland in 1561 to take personal rule of her kingdom after her
years in France. In the poem poets and bards hold a poetic
competition (a 'wake') in Holyrood Palace to welcome the Queen. A
key concern of the poem is the state of Scotland in 1561 - a
crucial period in Scottish history. The Queen's Wake looks back to
the pre-1560 world of Catholic Scotland and explores the tensions
between that old world and an emerging modernity. On publication
The Queen's Wake was an unexpected popular success, placing Hogg
for a while alongside Byron and Scott as one of the most admired
British poets of that time. Over the next six years Hogg was
encouraged to make substantial revisions, to make the poem even
more attractive and saleable. It thus exists in significantly
different authorial versions, each reflecting Hogg's circumstances
at the time. To best serve the modern reader, this edition presents
both the first and fifth edition of the poem.
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