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Shepherd's Calendar
Av James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack
Inbunden, 1995
1759 kr
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A collection of thirteen tales and anecdotes, published for the first time as Hogg intended, and capturing the flavour of Border story-telling.
Three Perils of Woman
Av James Hogg, Colin Groves m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1607 kr
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Both comical and horrific, The Three Perils of Woman is essentially a combination of two stories on similar themes. One is set in the Highlands following the Battle of Culloden and the other in Hogg's Edinburgh. Daring in its subject matter, the novel touches on such delicate topics as prostitution …
Queer Book
Inbunden, 2007
1759 kr
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‘It will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna understand a word of it’Hogg’s boast to William BlackwoodWitty, humorous and comical as the title implies, the eccentric nature of many of the poems collected here nevertheless belies the often serious and moral issues contained within. …
Tales of the Wars of Montrose
Inbunden, 1996
1607 kr
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In Tales of the Wars of Montrose Hogg continues his examination of Scotland's past. Using different narrators and different moods in each of the five tales that comprise the work, Hogg leads the reader into (and eventually out of) a state of anarchy and confusion in his native country.
Lay Sermons
Av James Hogg, Gillian Hughes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
1572 kr
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Lay Sermons offers, playfully, a series of lay sermons on good principles and good breeding - the last thing that one would expect from the pen of Blackwood's Ettrick Shepherd. But a significant part of the joke is that the Shepherd provides lay sermons that combine into a series of wise …
Anecdotes of Scott
Inbunden, 1999
1483 kr
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James Hogg knew Sir Walter Scott well, and after Scott's death in 1832 he wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Hogg arranged for his manuscript to be sent to John Gibson Lockhart, Scott's son-in-law and official biographer; but when Lockhart read the manuscript he …
Queen Hynde
Av James Hogg, Suzanne Gilbert m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1607 kr
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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.
Contributions to Annuals and Gift-Books
Av James Hogg, Janette Currie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1607 kr
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In 1822 Rudolph Ackermann’s Forget Me Not [...] for 1823 established a fashion for handsomely produced and copiously illustrated annual anthologies of short literary works. Books of this kind were designed as Christmas and New Year’s presents, and in the 1820s and 1830s they became a significant …
Winter Evening Tales
Av James Hogg, Ian Duncan
Inbunden, 2002
1607 kr
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Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg’s most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Exhibiting the most complex genesis of any of Hogg’s works, it is the outstanding example of a ‘national’ genre pioneered by him – the miscellaneous collection of popular and …
Jacobite Relics of Scotland
Volume 2
Inbunden, 2003
2140 kr
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James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg. It created a canon for the Jacobite song which had an enormous influence on subsequent collections, and was of great importance in …
Jacobite Relics of Scotland
Volume 1
Inbunden, 2002
2368 kr
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James Hogg's Jacobite Relics - originally commissioned by the Highland Society of London in 1817 - is an important addition to The Collected Works of James Hogg. It created a canon for the Jacobite song which had an enormous influence on subsequent collections, and was of great importance in …
Queen's Wake
A Legendary Tale
Av James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack
Inbunden, 2004
1607 kr
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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 …
Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 1, 1800-1819
Inbunden, 2005
1483 kr
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Hogg was a superb letter-writer, and this is the initial volume of the first collected edition of his letters (to be completed in three volumes). Many of the letters have never been published before, or published only in part. They vividly reflect Hogg’s varied social experience and shed new light …
Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 2, 1820-1831
Inbunden, 2006
1483 kr
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The letters in the second volume of Gillian Hughes’s pioneering edition vividly reflect Hogg’s varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries. His correspondents included major writers such as Scott and Byron, politicians such as Sir Robert Peel, and …
Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 3, 1832-1835
Inbunden, 2008
1483 kr
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The third and final volume of the first collected edition of Hogg's letters reveals his versatility in old age. In 1832 he visits London for the first time and becomes the literary lion of the season. As communications improve in the early 1830s he explores the possibility of writing for American …
Mador of the Moor
Av James Hogg, James E. Barcus
Inbunden, 2005
1607 kr
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With an Essay on Hogg's Literary Friendships by Janette Currie and an Appendix on the Popular Context by Suzanne GilbertScottish popular tradition includes a group of stories about a King who has adventures - amorous and otherwise - as he wanders in disguise among his people. Many of these stories …
Altrive Tales
Featuring a ‘Memoir of the Author’s Life’
Inbunden, 2003
1607 kr
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Altrive Tales was carefully prepared by Hogg in 1832 as the opening volume in a planned twelve-volume collected prose fiction series, intended as the culmination of his career as a storyteller. It opens with his own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional …
Mountain Bard
Av James Hogg, Suzanne Gilbert
Inbunden, 2007
1607 kr
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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 …
Anecdotes of Scott
Häftad, 2004
296 kr
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After Scott’s death in 1832 James Hogg wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Scott’s son-in-law and official biographer, John Gibson Lockhart, declared himself to be filled with ‘utter disgust and loathing’ at the ‘beastly and abominable things’ he found it to …
Winter Evening Tales
Av James Hogg, Ian Duncan
Häftad, 2004
303 kr
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Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg’s most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime. Its experimental medley of novellas, tales, poems and sketches posed a lively alternative to the dominant form of the historical novel established by Walter Scott.The collection …
Altrive Tales
Featuring a ‘Memoir of the Author’s Life’
Häftad, 2005
321 kr
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‘I like to write about myself: in fact, there are few things I like better…’So confesses Hogg with pawky self-mocking humour in Altrive Tales.The collection opens with Hogg’s own story of how a ragged servant-lad remade himself as a respected professional writer, the associate of Byron, Scott, …
Queen's Wake
A Legendary Tale
Av James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack
Häftad, 2005
328 kr
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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 …
Forest Minstrel
Av James Hogg, Peter Garside m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
1408 kr
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Originally published in 1810, The Forest Minstrel represents the first full collection of songs by Hogg. The items contained include some of his first compositions as a shepherd in Ettrick, while others originate from early contact with the literary culture of Edinburgh. This edition for the first …
Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems
Av James Hogg, J H Rubenstein m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1683 kr
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This collection is comprised of ten of Hogg's poems which, in very different ways, explore the visionary and supernatural, and the writer's portrayal of them - echoing the subject and title of Shakespeare's famous play.Included among the poems are: 'The Pilgrims of the Sun', which seeks to …
Highland Journeys
Inbunden, 2010
1572 kr
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Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, …
Contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Volume 1, 1817-1828
Av James Hogg, Thomas C. Richardson
Inbunden, 2008
1607 kr
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Although portrayed as the 'boozing buffoon' of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Hogg (both as the celebrated Ettrick Shepherd and anonymously) was a key contributor of songs, narrative poems, tales, and reviews to the liveliest of all early nineteenth-century periodicals. The present volume includes …
Contributions to Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
Volume 2, 1829-1835
Av James Hogg, Thomas C. Richardson
Inbunden, 2012
1759 kr
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Hogg played a significant role in the success and notoriety of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, the 'Maga', as the magazine came to be known among the contributors, founded in 1817 by the Edinburgh publisher and bookseller, William Blackwood. Hogg's relationships with Blackwood, the magazine, and …
Queer Book
Häftad, 2007
328 kr
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‘It will be a grand book for thae Englishers for they winna understand a word of it’Hogg’s boast to William BlackwoodWitty, humorous and comical as the title implies, the eccentric nature of many of the poems collected here nevertheless belies the often serious and moral issues contained within. …
Bush aboon Traquair and The Royal Jubilee
Av James Hogg, Douglas S. Mack
Inbunden, 2008
1607 kr
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The Bush aboon Traquair, like Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd, is a pastoral drama with songs, and in this play Hogg celebrates the life of the people of his native community in Ettrick Forest. At times earthy and at times hilarious, The Bush focuses on rural courtship, and it derives part of …
Three Perils of Man
Av James Hogg, Graham Tulloch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1759 kr
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In starting The Three Perils of Man Hogg embarked on an ambitious project of emulating and perhaps surpassing his friend and rival Walter Scott in Scott’s own chosen literary territory, chivalry and the Borders. Originally envisaged as a two volume ‘Border Romance’, entitled The Perilous Castle and …
