About Myself
Liam McIlvanney: James Hogg, 18 November 2004
The Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg
by Karl Miller.
Faber, 401 pp., £25, August 2003,0 571 21816 4 Show More
by Karl Miller.
Faber, 401 pp., £25, August 2003,
Altrive Tales
by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes.
Edinburgh, 293 pp., £40, July 2003,0 7486 1893 7 Show More
by James Hogg, edited by Gillian Hughes.
Edinburgh, 293 pp., £40, July 2003,
“... like, ‘Hoots, man – I dinna understand you sae weel now,’ and describes Theocritus as ‘the Allan Ramsay o’ Sicily’. One episode has the Shepherd galloping naked around Selkirkshire on an angry bull. When a new version of Hogg’s 1807 Memoir appeared in 1821, Blackwood’s carried a review so brutal (he is ‘the greatest boar on earth’; his ... ”