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Record 18688

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'I think the stanzas greatly improved and they are in the press as an introduction to the second edition of the [italics] wake [end italics]. There was one term which I was thinking should have been altered as it rather struck me to be bordering on the extravagant I think it was [italics] heaven-born [end italics] which I thought should only have been [italics] gifted [end italics] or something to that effect but you may trust that to me I will think of it when the proof comes to my hand'.
Century: 1800-1849
Date: Between 14 May 1813 and 7 Jun 1813
Country: Scotland
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

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

 

Text Being Read:

Author: Bernard Barton
Title: 'To James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, author of The Queen's Wake. By A Gentleman of Suffolk'
Genre: Poetry
Form of Text: Manuscript: Unknown
Publication details: published in Edinburgh evening Courant on 29/04/1813 and then reprinted in the second edition of The Queen's Wake
Provenance: owned
sent by Barton

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 18688  
Source - Print  
  Author: James Hogg
  Editor: Gillian Hughes
  Title: Collected Letters of James Hogg, The
  Place of Publication: Edinburgh
  Date of Publication: 2004
  Vol: I
  Page: 147
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 147, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18688, accessed: 18 April 2024

Additional comments:

Letter to Bernard Barton regarding the second version of these verses, originally given by Barton before mid-May 1813.

 

 

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