Evidence: | 'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still reported that the Wake is. It is reviewed at great length in this number of the Scottish. It is an excellent article and said to be written by the editor. He has placed my character as a poet in a much higher point of view than any has yet ventured to place it perhaps you may think that impossible after reading the following extract out of a London Monthly publication.
After giving the analysis he says, the English writer I mean "This subject, so fertile of poetic beauty the most diversified and contrasted, yields an harvest fully adequate to all that could be expected from the advantages of the field. Greater ease and spirit, a sweeter, richer, more animated and easy flow of versification, more clearness of language, more beauty of imagery, more grandeur, fervor, pathos, and occassionally more vivid and aweful sublimity, can hardly be found".
[this quotation continues for two pages, forming the greater part of this letter] |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 19 Aug 1813 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Edinburgh | ||||||||||
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Reader: | James Hogg |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | Nov 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (agricultural) |
Occupation: | shepherd, later author |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Scotish Review |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18691 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Hogg | |
Editor: | Gillian Hughes | |
Title: | Collected Letters of James Hogg, The | |
Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
Date of Publication: | 2004 | |
Vol: | I | |
Page: | 157-8 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 157-8, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18691, accessed: 28 March 2024 |
Letter from Hogg to Eliza Izett. Note that the spelling 'Scotish' appears to be correct. |
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