James Hogg Biography

James Hogg, Poet

Known as	The Ettrick Shepherd
Occup.	Poet
From	Scotland
Born	December 11, 1770 Ettrick, Scotland, Kingdom of Great Britain
Died	November 21, 1835 Ettrick, Scotland, United Kingdom
Aged	64 years

James Hogg (born upon a farm in Ettrick Woodland, Selkirkshire area at that time, today District Scottish Borders baptized on 9 December 1770, passed away on his ranch in Altrive Lake, Scottish Borders) was a Scottish poet as well as novelist, literary autodidact.

James Hogg called [The Ettrick Shepherd], was the child of a poor sheep farmer and also looked after himself early in life, the sheep. The tales and also songs of his country inflamed his creative imagination to ensure that he started to compose poetry, to compose and also review without. He found out to check out with trouble, to videotape his seals.

In 1801 he published (at his very own cost) without much success a volume of rhymes. He learnt more about Walter Scott and helped him in collecting ballads for The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. In his own rhymes, he was influenced by these old folk ballads.

In 1807 he published a collection of poems under the title The hill bard, and also an essay on lamb, which brought him ₤ 300 revenue. In February 1810 he mosted likely to Edinburgh. There he published The Spy, which quickly had to stop publication. In 1813 he released The Queen's Wake, a collection of stories and also ballads, this was a huge success, as well as which established his fame as a poet.

Regardless of the huge sales that took nearly all of these jobs, Hogg needed to deal with poverty. Duke of Buccleuch offered him an almost interest-free lease on a farm Eltrive Moss, since he had no monetary problems, he began to give out even more rhymes, Queen Hynde (1825) and A Queer Book (1832), a collection of rhymes versus the emancipation of Catholics.

Later in 1832 his Altrive Tales was released in London. Hogg was provided a large sum to modify a collection of the jobs of Robert Burns, however the personal bankruptcy of his London publisher stopped the magazine of his Altrive Tales.

He took control of a larger lease and also once again had substantial losses. The tales in 12 quantities ranging Altrive brought him nothing, due to the fact that the publisher made after publication of the initial volume (including Hogg's autobiography, 1832) bankruptcy. His last release was the Tales of the Wars of Montrose (1835, 3 vols), he passed away bad in Lake Altrive.

Our collection contains 6 quotes who is written / told by James.

Related authors: Walter Scott (Novelist), Robert Burns (Poet), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

James Hogg Famous Works:

1807 The Mountain Bard: Consisting of Ballads and Songs (Poetry)
1810 The Ettrick Shepherd: A Collection of Tales and Poems (Collection)
1818 The Brownie of Bodsbeck and Other Tales (Novella)
1822 The Three Perils of Man: War, Women, and Witchcraft (Novel)
1824 The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Novel)

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6 Famous quotes by James Hogg

"He had one uniform practice, and a very bad one it was, during the time of family worship, and just three or four seconds before the conclusion of the prayer, he started to his feet, and ran barking round the apartment like a crazed beast"

"The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety"

"It would require more hands to manage a stock of sheep, gather them from the hills, force them into houses and folds, and drive them to markets, than the profits of the whole stock were capable of maintaining"

"A shepherd may be a very able, trusty, and good shepherd, without a sweetheart - better, perhaps, than with one. But what is he without his dog?"

"Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence"

"He was scarcely then a year old, and knew so little of herding that he had never turned a sheep in his life; but as soon as he discovered it was his duty to do so I can never forget with what anxiety and eagerness he learned his different evolutions"