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James Hogg (1770–1835)
Hogg, James. A Scotch pastoral poet; born in Ettrick, about Dec. 1, 1770; died at Eltrive Lake, Nov. 21, 1835. He was an “Ettrick shepherd” from his seventh year, and so remained, notwithstanding various ineffectual efforts to become an Ettrick farmer. In ‘Scottish Pastorals,’ ‘Poems and Songs,’ and ‘The Mountain Bard’ his essentially Caledonian and pastoral quality finds happy expression, but ‘The Queen’s Wake’ (1813) is his masterpiece. (See Critical and Biographical Introduction).