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The Mountain Bard
James Hogg
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Description for The Mountain Bard
Hardback. This new 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. Editor(s): Gilbert, Suzanne. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 384 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1043.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
The Collected Works of James Hogg
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748620067
SKU
V9780748620067
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About James Hogg
Suzanne Gilbert is Lecturer at the University of Stirling. She is a ballad scholar, and a General Editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Edition, for which she has edited Queen Hynde (with Douglas S. Mack).
Reviews for The Mountain Bard
The modern edition of The Mountain Bard, first published in 1807, then revised for 1821, contains both of these editions: double helpings that reveal Hogg's gradual construction of himself as the true Borders Minstrel based on his first-hand knowledge of traditional ballads. Suzanne Gilbert ably describes the context surrounding the production of Hogg's 1807 volume and considers the influence of ... Read more