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‘O, weel befa’ the maiden gay’

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Poem details

‘O, weel befa’ the maiden gay’

METADATA

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‘O, weel befa’ the maiden gay’

Poet(s)

Hogg, James
Pseudonym:
The Ettrick Shepherd

Credits

Metadata research and editing

DVPP Project Team

Source

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 29:178, 546–547, March 1831.

First line

O, weel befa’ the maiden gay

Authorship

Pseudonymous

Print context

Quoted in prose contribution

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The same poem published more than once

“O weel befa’ the maiden gay”

Notes and attribution research

Poem is spoken by the pseudonym Shepherd as a character in the unsigned prose contribution Noctes Ambrosianæ. No. LV (535-71), by John Wilson (Wellesley Index). (KF, SP)

DVPP id

Numeric id of this poem in the DVPP collection: 10974

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Alison Chapman (ed.) and the DVPP team, “‘O, weel befa’ the maiden gay’,” Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project, Edition 0.98.11beta , University of Victoria, 7th May 2025, https://dvpp.uvic.ca/blackwoods/1831/pom_10974_o_weel_befa_the_maiden_gay.html.

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