Mountain Bard / James Hogg and Suzanne Gilbert.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hogg, James, 1770-1835, author.

Gilbert, Suzanne, author.{del}.

Series:

The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg Series

The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Ballads, Scots.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 526 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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. Available in Paperback:The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerThe Shepherd's CalendarTales of the Wars of MontroseThe Three Perils of WomanWinter Evening TalesAnecdotes of ScottThe Queen's WakeAltrive Tales Also Available in Hardback:A Queer BookThe Shepherd's CalendarThe Three Perils of WomanTales of the Wars of MontroseLay SermonsQueen HyndeAnecdotes of ScottThe SpyThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerThe Jacobite Relics of Scotland (First Series) The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (Second Series)Winter Evening TalesThe Queen's WakeAltrive TalesThe Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 1, 1800-1819

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

The Mountain Bard (1807)

Memoir of the Life of James Hogg

Ballads, in Imitation of the Antients

Sir David Græme

The Pedlar

Gilmanscleuch

The Fray of Elibank

The Death of Douglas, Lord of Liddisdale

Willie Wilkin

Thirlestane

Lord Derwent

The Laird of Lairistan

Songs. Adapted to the Times

Sandy Tod: A Scottish Pastoral

A Farewell to Ettrick

Love Abused

Epistle to Mr T. M. C., London

Scotia’s Glens

Donald Macdonald

The Author’s Address to his Auld Dog Hector

The Bonnets o’ Bonny Dundee

Auld Ettrick John

The Hay Making

Bonny Jean

Appendix: Pre-1807 Texts

Letters Concerning James Hogg

Sir David Grame

Sir David Graham

The Death of Douglas Lord of Liddisdale

Sandy Tod: A Scottish pastoral

Jamie’s Farewell to Ettrick

To Mr T. M. C. London

Donald M‘Donald

A Shepherd’s Address to his Auld Dog Hector

Song: Bonny Jean

The Mountain Bard (1821)

Sir David Graeme

Mess John

The Wife of Crowle

The Lairde of Kirkmabreeke

The Tweeddale Raide

Robin an’ Nanny

Sandy Tod

Farewell to Ettrick

Appendix (1821)

Glendonnen’s Raid

Note on the Texts

Hyphenation List

Editorial Notes

Map 1: The Border between Scotland and England

Map 2: Ettrick and Yarrow

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (de Gruyter, viewed November 27, 2022).

ISBN:

0-7486-2915-7

OCLC:

1322124406