James Hogg

James Hogg
Born	1770 Ettrick
Dee'd	21 November 1835
Ither names	"Ettrick Shepherd"
Thrift	bard and novellist, in Scots an Inglis

James Hogg (Ettrick, 1770 – Ibidem 21 November 1835) wes a Scottish bard an novelist that skreivit in baith Scots an Inglis. As a laddie he warkit as a hird an fairmhaan, an wes maistly self-educatit throu readin. He wes a frein o mony o the great skreivers o his day, includin Sir Walter Scott, o whae he later skreivit an unauthorisit biographie. He became widely kent as the "Ettrick Shepherd", a nickname unner whit some o his warks war publisht, an the character name he wes gien in the widely read series Noctes Ambrosianae, publisht in Blackwood's Magazine. His novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner wes weil regardit bi the French writer André Gide and the-day is thocht te be ane o the greatest Scots novels. His ither warks include the lang poem The Queen's Wake (1813), his collection o sangs Jacobite Reliques (1819), an his twae novels The Three Perils of Man (1822), an The Three Perils of Woman (1823).

Buiks

• The Mountain Bard (1807)
• The Forest Minstrel (1810)
• The Queen's Wake (1813)
• The Pilgrims of the Sun (1815)
• Brownie of Bodsbeck (1817)
• Jacobite Reliques (1819)
• The Three Perils of Man (1822)
• The Three Perils of Woman (1923)
• The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824)
• Queen Hynde (1925)
• Songs by the Ettrick Shephard (1831)
• The Brownie of the Black Haggs (1828)
• The Domestic Manner and Private Life of Sir Walter Scott (1834)
• Tales and Sketches of the Ettrick Shepherd (1837)