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Informationen zum Autor James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner . Gillian Hughes is Advisory Editor to The New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson . She was editor and/or general editor for many volumes in the Stirling/South Carolina Hogg edition, founding editor of the journal Studies in Hogg and his World , and is the author of James Hogg: A Life (Edinburgh University Press, 2007). Her current projects include an edition (co-edited with Peter Garside) of the Shorter Verse of Walter Scott . The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling. Robin MacLachlan is Hogg Society Treasurer and an independent scholar. Klappentext The initial volume, of the first collected edition of Hogg's letters (to be completed in three volumes), showcases his talent for letter writing. Many of the letters have been published only in part or have never been published before. They vividly reflect Hogg's varied social experience and shed light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries. His famous correspondents were Scott, Byron, and Southey, antiquarians such as Robert Surtees, politicians such as Sir Robert Peel, and editors and publishers such as John Murray, William Blackwood, and Robert Chambers. Additionally there are letters to shepherds, farmers, aristocrats, musicians, young ladies, and bluestockings. The author first appears in this volume in 1800 as a young shepherd with literary ambitions. Later becoming the famous author of The Queen's Wake (1813) and a key supporter of the early Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1817). Among the final letters are tender but idiosyncratic love-letters to the Dumfriesshire girl he married in 1820 at the mature age of forty-nine. Hogg's entertaining and informative letters are supplemented by detailed annotation and a full editorial apparatus-including biographical notes on his chief correspondents and a concise overview of corresponding phase of his life. Zusammenfassung The first ever edition of Hogg's letters to be published, featuring Hogg’s correspondence with figures such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel....
