
The Shepherd's Calendar
James Hogg(Author)
Douglas S. Mack(Editor)
Edinburgh University Press
Published on 1. May 1995
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-7486-0474-6 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of thirteen tales and anecdotes, published for the first time as Hogg intended, and capturing the flavour of Border story-telling.
Reviews / Votes
An important and addictively readable addition to the Scottish canon. -- Christopher Harvie The reader is not being treated to a quaint display of an outmoded lifestyle, but privileged with glimpses of a community possessed of special knowledge and internal laws. Hogg's shepherds are far removed from those of Virgil or Spenser, while even Wordsworth's Michael seems remote from the narrator who can describe the destruction of '12 scores of excellent ewes' with such calmness and compassion: 'when the snow went away they were discovered all lying dead with their heads one way as if a flock of sheep had dropped dead going from the washing. -- Fiona Stafford The stories are about storms, sheep, lairds, about farmers with designs on their servant girls, as in one of the most memorable, 'Tibby Hyslop's Dream', where a pious, winsome lass, prophesied over by a second-sighted, 'unco parabolical' great-aunt, copes with such designs - and the farmer in this case comes to one of Hogg's suicidal ends. -- Karl MillerMore details
Series
Edition
UK edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7486-0474-6 (9780748604746)
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Persons
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. The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.
Author
Editor
Formerly Professor Emeritus of EnglishUniversity of Stirling