James Hogg - (1770 - 1835)
Scottish poet, novelist, short story and song writer, journalist, editor, playwright, and essayist.
A nearly illiterate shepherd until the age of eighteen, Hogg became a pro...
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For the last twenty years of his life, James Hogg, "The Ettrick Shepherd," was perhaps as well known in his native Scotland as any of his contemporaries, save only Sir Walter Scott. This reputation de...
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Known today as the author of The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), an extraordinary portrayal of the psychology of antinomian Calvinism, James Hogg became famous in his ti...
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During the 1820s and 1830s James Hogg, or "The Ettrick Shepherd," as he was called from his frequent signature of his magazine articles, was almost as well known a Scottish author as Sir Walter Scott....
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James Hogg - (1770 - 1835)
James Hogg
