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Quotations
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James Hogg Quotes
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Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy swelling-place-- O, to abide in the desert with thee! Where the pools are bright...


Biography

Name: James Hogg
Birth Date: November, 1770
Death Date: November 21, 1835
Nationality: British, English
Ethnicity: Scottish
Gender: Male

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Biography of James Hogg
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During the 1820s and 1830s James Hogg, or "The Ettrick Shepherd," as he was called from his frequent signature of his magazine articles, was almost as well known a Scottish author as Sir Walter Scott. The works his contemporaries valued most highly...
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Biography of James Hogg
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Known today as the author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), an extraordinary portrayal of the psychology of antinomian Calvinism, James Hogg became famous in his time as the "Ettrick Shepherd" of Blackwood's Edinburgh...
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Biography of James Hogg
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For the last twenty years of his life, James Hogg, "The Ettrick Shepherd," was perhaps as well known in his native Scotland as any of his contemporaries, save only Sir Walter Scott. This reputation derived not only from his numerous poems, stories,...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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James Hogg - (1770 - 1835) Summary
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James Hogg - (1770 - 1835) Scottish poet, novelist, short story and song writer, journalist, editor, playwright, and essayist. A nearly illiterate shepherd until the age of eighteen, Hogg became a prolific writer of poetry, ballads, songs, short...
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James Hogg Information
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Studies in Romanticism
Confessions of a gentrified sinner: secrets in Scott and Hogg.(Walter Scott, author James Hogg)
03/22/2002: 14,502 words, approx. 48 pages
"You are right, my friend--you are right," replied poor Dick, his eye kindling with enthusiasm; "why should I shun the name of an--an"--(he hesitated for a phrase)--"an out-of-doors artist?" --Walter Scott, The Bride of Lammermoor "That there are subjects of secrecy and confidence between...
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Novel
Persons Fall Apart: James Hogg's Transcendent Sinner
04/01/2003: 9,974 words, approx. 33 pages
Man can patiently submit to be contradicted, can reason calmly and rationally upon almost any subject except religion.... Nothing assimilates man more closely to the fiend than religious fanaticism.... Sometimes the disease [the "suicidal melancholia" of the fanatic ] takes another form, and, then...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by David Groves
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In the following excerpt, Groves evaluates Hogg as a Romantic poet.
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Critical Essay by Nelson C. Smith
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In the following essay, Smith discusses a number of Hogg's lesser works—including ballads, lyrics, and longer narrative poetry and fiction—focusing on the largely conventional techniques, forms, and themes of these writings.
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Critical Essay by David Groves
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In the following essay, Groves contends that Hogg's The Three Perils of Woman demonstrates a mythical vision of descent into chaos followed by a reaffirmation of human unity.
 


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