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James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading.
After completing his Highland poem Mador of the Moor in February 1814, Hogg conceived the idea of 'a volume of romantic poems, to be entitled "Midsummer Night Dreams".' [1] The first poem he composed for this project was Connel of Dee, in which a shepherd's social aspirations come to an end when he has a nightmare of a hellish marriage and violent death.
The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Poem, by James Hogg was first published by George Goldie in Edinburgh, and by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown in London on 30 January 1813. [4] On 14 June the same publishers re-issued the copies remaining unsold as a second edition, with replacement pages at the beginning and end. [5]
By James Hogg, The Ettrick Shepherd was first published in Edinburgh in February 1807 by Archibald Constable and Co. and in London by John Murray. [1] Hogg had had seven poems printed privately in 1801 as Scottish Pastorals, [2] and several of his poems had been published separately in The Scots Magazine and The Edinburgh Magazine. [3]
In Hogg's own time it appears in a note to The Lord of the Isles (1815) by Walter Scott, [5] and in the same author's essay on 'Chivalry' in the 1818 supplement of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. [6] Hogg also draws on The Brus for an episode actually involving Roxburgh castle, in attacking which Sir James Douglas and his men are taken for cattle ...
A Queer Book (1832) is a collections of 26 poems, mostly short narratives, by James Hogg, all but two of which had been previously published, more than half of them in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. Background
Winter Evening Tales is a collection by James Hogg of four novellas, a number of short stories (some of them semi-fictional) and sketches, and three poems, published in two volumes in 1820. Eleven of the items are reprinted, with varying degrees of revision, from Hogg's periodical The Spy (1810‒11).
Mador of the Moor is a narrative poem by James Hogg, first published in 1816. Consisting of an Introduction, five cantos, and a Conclusion, it runs to more than two thousand lines, mostly in the Spenserian stanza. Set in late medieval Scotland, it tells of the seduction of a young maiden by a charismatic minstrel and her journey to Stirling in ...