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Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd
James Hogg
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Description for Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd
Hardback. Based on Hogg's 1831 collection entitled Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd, this critical edition provides the original text as well as the history of its genesis. Editor(s): McCue, Kirsteen. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; AVQS; DCF; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 38. Weight in Grams: 808.
Hogg's involvement with song collecting and writing spans the whole of his career, from the early 1800s until the early 1830s, and examples are found across all genres of his work - fiction, drama, poetry and in a number of important musical publications. His 1831 collection entitled Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd came about as an attempt to better his difficult financial situation, and is of particular interest and significance. It was published towards the end of his career, and it provides his own retrospective presentation of his lifetime achievement as a song-writer. This critical edition of Hogg's volume makes ... Read more
Hogg's involvement with song collecting and writing spans the whole of his career, from the early 1800s until the early 1830s, and examples are found across all genres of his work - fiction, drama, poetry and in a number of important musical publications. His 1831 collection entitled Songs by the Ettrick Shepherd came about as an attempt to better his difficult financial situation, and is of particular interest and significance. It was published towards the end of his career, and it provides his own retrospective presentation of his lifetime achievement as a song-writer. This critical edition of Hogg's volume makes ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
The Collected Works of James Hogg
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748639366
SKU
V9780748639366
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About James Hogg
Dr Kirsteen McCue is a lecturer in Scottish Literature in the Department of Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow and Associate Director of the Centre for Robert Burns Studies recently established there. She was co-editor with Marjorie Rycroft and Warwick Edwards on two volumes of Joseph Haydn's folksong settings for Thomson for the new Joseph Haydn Werke in 2001 ... Read more
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