This collection is comprised of ten of Hogg's poems which, in very different ways, explore the visionary and supernatural, and the writer's portrayal of them - echoing the subject and title of Shakespeare's famous play.
The first ever edition of Hogg's letters to be published, featuring Hogg’s correspondence with figures such as Sir Walter Scott, Lord Byron and Sir Robert Peel.
Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances.
This book presents both the first and fifth edition of the poem.
In Tales of the Wars of Montrose Hogg continues his examination of Scotland's past.
Heroic, radical and at times hilarious, Queen Hynde is Ossian with jokes; but Hogg's epic has serious purposes in mind.
Two of James Hogg's pastoral dramas with songs, presented here with full explanatory notes and glossary.
In this collection of short stories Hogg focuses on the Scottish civil war of 1644-45, in which the Marquis of Montrose led his royalist forces in a series of stunning victories against the odds before his final defeat at Philiphaugh.
The Queen's Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry.
One of Hogg's longest and also one of his most original and daring works, presented here in a scholarly edition in light of the discovery of the original manuscript.
Winter Evening Tales (1820; second edition 1821) was James Hogg’s most successful work of prose fiction in his lifetime.
The letters in the second volume of Gillian Hughes’s pioneering edition vividly reflect Hogg’s varied social experience and shed new light on his own writings and those of his contemporaries.