Hogg, James (M)

Surname: Hogg
Forename(s): James
d. 21 November 1835. Nationality: Scottish. VIAF.
Poet, song writer, novelist, and essayist, writing in Scots and English. Pseudonyms: “The Ettrick Shepherd,” “J. H.” Born c. 1770; Church at Ettrick records baptism date as 9 December 1770. Son of a shepherd, Hogg also worked as a shepherd from 1790 to 1800. Travelled to Edinburgh in 1810 to establish writing career. First collection of poetry, Scottish Pastorals, published in 1801. Well connected with many literary figures, including Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, and Allan Cunningham. Published novels include The Brownie of Bodsbeck and Other Tales (1818) and The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). Contributor to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine and Fraser’s Magazine. Biographical information: ODNB. (KF, SCM)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 94
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
Verses Recited by the Author, in a Party of his Countrymen, on the Day that the News arrived of our final Victory over the French 1817-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7961
“Hast thou not noted on the bye-way side” 1817-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8049
A Last Adieu 1817-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7962
Elegy 1817-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8017
A Hebrew Melody 1818-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8112
To the Publisher 1818-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8142
On Carmel’s Brow. A Hebrew Melody 1818-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8205
Sonnet to John Carnegie, Esq. 1818-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8202
“O hone, Odoherty!” 1818-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8176
Verses, Addressed to the Right Hon. Lady Anne Scott of Buccleuch 1818-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8286
Song to a Salmon 1819-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7895
L’Envoy; An Excellent New Song in Honour of Dr. Scott 1819-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7800
Lines to Miss Fanny Forman, on Bidding her Farewell 1819-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7795
Dr. Scott’s Farewell to Braemar 1819-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 7801
“O sairly may I rue the day I fancied first the women-kind” 1822-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9898
“Come all ye jolly shepherds that whistle thro’ the glen” 1823-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 9939
The Left-Handed Fiddler 1824-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10159
New Christmas Carol 1824-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10167
To Odoherty, In Answer to “Farewell,” &c 1825-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10184
The Grousome Caryl; Ane Most Treuthful Ballant 1825-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10172
“If e’er you would be a brave fellow, young man” 1825-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10198
Hymn to the Devil 1825-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10197
The Laird o’ Lamington 1825-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10213
The Witch of the Gray Thorn 1825-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10219
Ringan and May. Ane Richte Mournfulle Dityee 1825-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10217
The Brakens Wi’ Me 1825-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10320
Wat O’ Buccleuch 1826-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10442
On the Duke of Buccleuch’s Birth-Day 1826-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10441
Meg O’ Marley 1826-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10455
The Great Muckle Village of Balmaquhapple 1826-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10454
“O weel befa’ the maiden gay” 1826-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10556
My Bonny Mary 1826-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10553
“There’s some souls ’ill yammer and cheep” 1826-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10585
“I lookit east—I lookit west” 1826-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10583
Tam Nelson 1826-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10584
Ode for Music. On the Death of Lord Byron 1827-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10621
Sing Round About Hawick, &c 1827-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10777
The Perilis of Wemyng. Ane moste woeful Tragedye 1827-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10850
Ane Pastorale of the Rocke 1827-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10879
The Sky-Lark 1828 Forget-Me-Not Poet 13981
The Descent of Love 1828 Forget-Me-Not Poet 14088
Moralitas 1828-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10758
“O, mother, tell the laird o’t” 1828-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10759
Ane Rychte Gude and Preytious Ballande 1828-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10704
“I sing of a land that was famous of yore” 1828-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10713
The Goode Manne of Allowa. Ane most strainge and treuthfulle Ballande 1828-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10714
Song—“John Nicholson’s Daughter” 1828-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10717
St. Mary of the Lows 1829 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15524
Jock Johnstone the Tinkler 1829-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10473
Will and Sandy. A Scots Pastoral 1829-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10511
“O, Love’s a bitter thing to bide” 1829-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10527
John Weir, A Ballad 1829-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10296
“That very night the mysterious dame” 1829-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10325
Hymn Over a Dying Virgin 1829-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10324
Maria Gray. A Song 1829-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10319
Elen of Reigh 1829-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10316
“Let them cant about Adam and Eve—frae my saul” 1829-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10530
“O great was the wonder, and great was the dread” 1829-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10321
The p and the q; or, the Adventures of Jock M’Pherson 1829-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10365
A Bard’s Address to his Youngest Daughter 1829-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10398
The Last Stork 1830-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10051
The Lairde of Lonne. Ane Rychte Breiffe and Wyttie Ballande, compilit by Maister Hougge 1830-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10060
A Greek Pastoral 1830-05 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10068
The First Sermon 1830-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10071
A Real Vision 1830-07 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10115
The Origin of the Fairies 1830-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10134
Jocke Taittis Expeditioune Till Hell 1830-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10239
A Sunday Pastoral 1830-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10243
The Raid of the Kers 1830-12 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10246
King Willie 1831-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10949
“O, weel befa’ the maiden gay” 1831-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10974
Johnne Graimis Eckspeditioun Till Hevin. Compilit Be Mr Hougge 1831-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10977
The Miser’s Grave 1831-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 10985
“Would you know what a Whig is, and always was” 1831-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11073
The Magic Mirror 1831-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11081
The Monitors 1831-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11088
Lyttil Pynkie 1831-11 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11086
The Battle of the Boyne 1832 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15300
Maggy O’ Buccleuch 1832 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15283
Mora Campbell 1834-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11911
The Skylark 1834-06-21 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 3245
II. Lord B—m to Lord A—th—e 1835-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11615
I. Lord B—m to a Great Personage 1835-01 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11614
Letter III. L—d B—m to to Joseph Grimaldi, Esq. On a Coalition 1835-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11621
Verses to the Comet of 1811 1835-10-24 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 3354
The Lord of Balloch 1836 Forget-Me-Not Poet 15341
The Auld Man’s Farewell to his Wee House 1836-07-09 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 3419
Bonny Mary 1840-10-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5228
Father’s Lament 1840-10-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5230
A Widow’s Wail 1840-10-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 5229
“Oh, my lassie, our joy to complete again” 1840-10-17 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12307
“Dweller in heaven high, Ruler below!” 1882-09 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 8965
The Skylark 1890-07 Atalanta Poet 2040
The Spectre’s Cradle-Song 1892-09 Victorian Magazine Poet 1545