| Evidence: | 'Wilson is publishing a poem entitled "The City of the Plague". It is in the dramatic form and a perfect anomaly in literature. Wilson is a man of great genius and fancy but he is intoxicated with Wordsworth and a perfect dreamer of moons ships seas and solitudes were it not for this antihydrophobia (forgive my mangling of that long Greek word) I do not know what he might not be capable of'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 26 Feb 1816 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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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: | shepherd / farmer 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: | John Wilson |
| Title: | City of the Plague, The |
| Genre: | Poetry |
| Form of Text: | Manuscript: Unknown |
| Publication details: | published in March 1816 |
| Provenance: | unknown |
| Record ID: | 18815 | |
| 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: | 266 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 266, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18815, accessed: 25 March 2023 | |
| Letter to Byron. Hogg was a friend of Wilson and had perhaps seen the poem in Autumn 1815. |
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