| Evidence: | 'I suppose you have heard what a crushing review [Jeffrey] has given [Wordsworth]. I still found him persisting in his first asseveration that it was heavy but what was my pleasure to find he had only got to the 17 division I assured him he had the marrow of the thing to come at as yet' |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 Nov 1814 and 15 Dec 1814 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
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| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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 and 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: | Francis Jeffrey |
| Title: | [review of The Excursion in The Edinburgh Review] |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book, Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | Edinburgh Review 24 (November 1814) |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18791 | |
| 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: | 222 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 222, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18791, accessed: 03 December 2023 | |
| Letter from James Hogg to Southey. Francis Jeffrey reviewed Wordsworth's Excursion notoriously in The Edinburgh Review (November 1814), asserting 'This will never do'. |
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