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.

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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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A Queer Book

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

This title introduces Scotland's contribution to forms of traditional culture and expression. The 18 acknowledged experts introduce readers to important genres and elements of traditional literature from the late medieval period to the present, as well as providing a clear explanation of key conceptual and theoretical issues. They present a diverse cultural history, explain the ways in which 'tradition' is created through interaction with song and music, and how it relates to popular belief; and explain the role that ideas about national, political, and cultural identity have played in the preservation and transmission of traditional materials. It explores the cultural meanings of 'tradition' and 'living tradition' and the roles of historical and modern informants, storytellers, and singers. It examines the relationship between the oral and the literary in Scots, Gaelic, and English. It draws on a wide range of examples including: Francis J. Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads; The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection; the waulking song; Gaelic folktale; the traditions of Fionn mac Cumhail; the songs of Anna Gordon Brown; ballads from Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border and James Hogg's Jacobite Relics; and material from George Campbell Hay, Sorley Maclean and Hamish Henderson. It guides readers through some of the key theoretical and conceptual issues in the field.

Heroic, radical and at times hilarious, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes; but Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind. Its picture of the ancient Scottish past has much in common with stories of King Arthur and Camelot; and Queen Hynde aspires to emulate Paradise Lost as a Christian epic.

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