Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry

Poet, song writer, and translator. Born at the end of the eighteenth century in Stobo, Scotland. Nephew of James Hogg (the Ettrick Shepherd), and his father was also a shepherd. Educated at the University of Edinburgh. Worked for the printer Ballantyne. Became J. G. Lockhart’s assistant at the Quarterly Review in 1825, and also worked as an amanuensis for Walter Scott. Became assistant editor of the Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal at its founding in 1832. Biographical information: Charles Rogers, editor, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, vol. 4, Adam and Charles Black, 1857, pp. 129-30. (AC)