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Scottish Pastorals
''Scottish Pastorals'' (1801), containing five poems and two songs, was the first book published by James Hogg. Background In 1800, most likely August or September, by his own account, Hogg had time on his hands during a trip to Edinburgh to sell sheep. Aware of his poetic gift—though only one poem of his had so far appeared in print, in ''The Scots Magazine'' for 1794—he found a printer's shop next to the market, wrote out 'a poem or two' from memory, and had them printed as a 62-page booklet. This may be a true recollection, though Hogg had showed a manuscript of the collection to friends before it was published. Editions ''Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs, &c. Mostly Written in the Dialect of the South. By James Hogg'' was printed in Edinburgh by John Taylor, Grassmarket. A thousand copies were printed, selling at a shilling. In 1988 Stirling University Press published a critical edition by Elaine Petrie. Contents Geordie Fa's Dirge Dusty, or, Watie an' Geordie's Review o ...
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James Hogg
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). Biography Early life James Hogg was born on a small farm near Ettrick, Selkirkshir ...
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The Scots Magazine
''The Scots Magazine'' is a magazine containing articles on subjects of Scottish interest. It claims to be the oldest magazine in the world still in publication, although there have been several gaps in its publication history. It has reported on events from the defeat of the Jacobites through the Napoleonic wars to the Second World War and on to the creation of the new Scottish Parliament. History ''The Scots Magazine'' was originally published in January 1739. It was intended as a rival to the London-based ''Gentleman's Magazine'', in order that "our countrymen might have the production of every month sooner, cheaper and better collected than before". Its first issue, dated Monday 9 February 1739, cost 6d. and appeared in a blue cover with the motto ''Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat''. Popular through the 18th century, it innovated a register of births, marriages and deaths, which other journals soon copied. From 1759 until 1765 it was edited by William Sm ...
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.The basic Google book link is found at: https://books.google.com/ . The "advanced" interface allowing more specific searches is found at: https://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Books are provided either by publishers and authors through the Google Books Partner Program, or by Google's library partners through the Library Project. Additionally, Google has partnered with a number of magazine publishers to digitize their archives. The Publisher Program was first known as Google Print when it was introduced at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October 2004. The Google Books Library Project, which scans works in the collections of library partners and adds them to the digital inv ...
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1801 Poems
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