James Hogg
Also known as The Ettrick Shepherd
British poet and novelist (1770–1835)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1770
- Died
- 1835
- Works
- 464
Top works
- Selected poems of James Hogg
- Noctes ambrosianae
- The mountain bard
- The mountain bard ; and Forest minstrel
- The poems of James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd
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Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to James Hogg, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorised biography. He became widely known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", a nickname under which some of his works were published, and the character name he was given in the widely read series Noctes Ambrosianae, published in Blackwood's Magazine. He is best known today for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. His other works include the long poem The Queen's Wake (1813), his collection of songs Jacobite Relics (1819), and his two novels The Three Perils of Man (1822), and The Three Perils of Woman (1823).
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