| Evidence: | 'I enclose you two poems one by Mr Riddell which I have copied and corrected a sublime and beautiful thing, its only fault being a small shade of redundancy of thought but that I cannot help. It gives great promise and I want to bring him in as my [italics]assistant [end italics] and [italics]successor [end italics]'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 8 Aug 1829 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: Mount Benger | ||||||||||
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| Reader: | James Hogg |
| Age | Adult (18-100+) |
| Gender | Male |
| Date of Birth | Nov 1770 |
| Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
| Occupation: | author / farmer |
| 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: | Henry Scott Ridell |
| Title: | 'Ode to the Harp of Zion' |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, September 1829 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18932 | |
| Source - | ||
| Author: | James Hogg | |
| Editor: | Gillian Hughes | |
| Title: | Collected Letters of James Hogg, The | |
| Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
| Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
| Vol: | II | |
| Page: | 346-7 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 346-7, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18932, accessed: 19 April 2024 | |
| Letter to William Blackwood. Blackwood suspected the poem was Hogg's. |
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