Record Number: 18690
Reading Experience:
Evidence:
'The Edin. and the Scottish Reviews were both published yesterday. Neither Rokeby nor the Wake is in the former. Rokeby it is certain is never to be in, but it is still reported that the Wake is. It is reviewed at great length in this number of the Scottish. It is an excellent article and said to be written by the editor. He has placed my character as a poet in a much higher point of view than any has yet ventured to place it perhaps you may think that impossible after reading the following extract out of a London Monthly publication. After giving the analysis he says, the English writer I mean "This subject, so fertile of poetic beauty the most diversified and contrasted, yields an harvest fully adequate to all that could be expected from the advantages of the field. Greater ease and spirit, a sweeter, richer, more animated and easy flow of versification, more clearness of language, more beauty of imagery, more grandeur, fervor, pathos, and occassionally more vivid and aweful sublimity, can hardly be found". [this quotation continues for two pages, forming the greater part of this letter]
Century:1800-1849
Date:19 Aug 1813
Country:Scotland
Timen/a
Place:city: Edinburgh
Type of Experience(Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
(Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Reader / Listener / Reading Group:
Reader: Age:Adult (18-100+)
Gender:Male
Date of Birth:Nov 1770
Socio-Economic Group:Labourer (agricultural)
Occupation:shepherd, later author
Religion:n/a
Country of Origin:Scotland
Country of Experience:Scotland
Listeners present if any:e.g family, servants, friends
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Additional Comments:
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Text Being Read:
Author: Title:Edinburgh Review
Genre:Essays / Criticism
Form of Text:Print: Serial / periodical
Publication Detailsn/a
Provenanceunknown
Source Information:
Record ID:18690
Source:James Hogg
Editor:Gillian Hughes
Title:Collected Letters of James Hogg, The
Place of Publication:Edinburgh
Date of Publication:2004
Vol:I
Page:157-8
Additional Comments:
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Citation:
James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The, (Edinburgh, 2004), I, p. 157-8, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18690, accessed: 28 September 2024
Additional Comments:
Letter from Hogg to Eliza Izett