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	Ettrick - LoveToKnow Watches
		ETTRICK, a river and parish of Selkirkshire, Scotland.
		below Ettrick church is Thirlestane Castle, the seat of Lord Napier and Ettrick, a descendant of the Napiers of Merchiston, and beside it is the ruin of the stronghold that belonged to John Scott of Thirlestane, to whom, in reward for his loyalty, James V.
		Only the merest fragment remains of Tushielaw tower, occupying high ground opposite the confluence of the Rankle and the Ettrick, the home of Adam Scott, " King of the Border," who was executed for his misdeeds in 1530.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Ettrick (257 words)

	Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Great Scots - Natural genius who gave form to Scotland's roots
		Shepherd of fish: A memorial to James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd of literary fame, at St Mary's Loch, Ettrick, Scottish Borders.
		As a real-life Borders shepherd turned professional author, Hogg had learned to negotiate cannily between the rural peasant Scotland in which he had been born and educated and the polite culture of early 19th century Edinburgh and London.
		Widely known by his pen-name of the Ettrick Shepherd and as the Shepherd of the Noctes Ambrosianae of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Hogg's letters reveal that his engagement with his own prescribed role of the Scottish aboriginal was in fact extremely sophisticated.
	heritage.scotsman.com /greatscots.cfm?id=582152006 (1192 words)

	James Hogg: The Ettrick Shepherd, Ettrick and Yarrow Valleys, Scottish Borders UK
		James Hogg: The Ettrick Shepherd, Ettrick and Yarrow Valleys, Scottish Borders UK Ettrick & Yarrow Valleys, Scottish Borders
		James Hogg was born in 1770 at Ettrick Hall, at the top of the Ettrick Valley.
		At the turn of the eighteenth century, Hogg was working as a shepherd on the farm on Blackhouse in Yarrow for the Laidlaw family, who opened their hearts and library to the young shepherd poet.
	www.ettrickyarrow.bordernet.co.uk /history/hogg-shepherd.html (484 words)

	Ettrick Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland
		In 1235 a large area of Ettrick Forest was granted to the monks of Melrose Abbey by Alexander II.
		The most significant part of Ettrick itself is bypassed even by the quiet and lonely B7009 as it makes its way through beautiful countryside from Selkirk south to Eskdalemuir.
		The focus of community life in Ettrick today remains the kirk, which lies at the western end of the remaining parts of the settlement.
	www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk /ettrick/ettrick (708 words)

	James Hogg
		Ettrick looked askance at a failed farmer and a fornicator with an odd habit of composing poems, and nobody would give him a job as a shepherd.
		All this was such proof demonstrative, that he never afterwards seems to have lost sight of the hope that the Ettrick Shepherd would at last become as famed as the Ayrshire ploughman.
		His closing days, which at first gave no premonition of their result, found him employed in compiling a small volume of sacred poetry, while his walks in the moors, amidst the fresh heather-bells and the bleating of flocks, made him feel as if the season of decay were still distant.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/james_hogg.htm (8120 words)

	Allan Cunningham - LoveToKnow 1911
		ALLAN CUNNINGHAM (1784-1842), Scottish poet and man of letters, was born at Keir, Dumfriesshire, on the 7th of December 1784, and began life as a stone mason's apprentice.
		His father was a neighbour of Burns at Ellisland, and Allan with his brother James visited James Hogg, the Ettrick shepherd, who became a friend to both.
		Cunningham contributed some songs to Roche's Literary Recreations in 1807, and in 1809 he collected old ballads for Robert Hartley Cromek's Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song; he sent in, however, poems of his own, which the editor inserted, even though he may have suspected their real authorship.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Allan_Cunningham (344 words)

	Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd
		A study of the relationship between Sir Walter Scott and James Hogg (1770-1835), the Ettrick Shepherd, is important in the light of the recent belated recognition of Hogg as a major Scottish writer.
		Hogg was born in 1770 in the parish of Ettrick, a remote and isolated community.
		Hogg was a shepherd working on the land of Scott's friend William Laidlaw, and it was Hogg, raised in the true Border tradition, who supplied Scott with some of the poetry and ballads which appear, albeit altered, in the Minstrelsy.
	www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk /biography/hogg.html (1568 words)

	James Hogg
		Scottish poet, known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", was baptized at Ettrick in Selkirkshire on the 9th of December 1770.
		He returned to Ettrick, only to find that he could not even obtain employment as a shepherd; so he set off in February 1810 to push his fortune in Edinburgh as a literary adventurer.
		The wit and mischief of some of his literary friends made free with his name as the "Shepherd" of the Noctes Ambrosianae, and represented him in ludicrous and grotesque aspects; but the effect of th whole was favorable to his popularity.
	www.nndb.com /people/715/000103406 (950 words)

	MusgraveLiterature
		An illiterate shepherd from the Borders, Hogg had to teach himself to read after his formal schooling ended when his father was declared bankrupt and he spent his childhood working as a cowherd.
		It was during his 20s that his creativity was sparked when, while employed as a shepherd by a relative of his mother, a Mr Laidlaw of Blackhouse Farm in Yarrow, he had access to a good collection of books.
		His reputation as a poet was often enhanced by the fact that he was for 30 years indeed a shepherd or hill-farmer and that he had taught himself to read and write.
	musgravemanor.homestead.com /MusgraveLiterature.html (1246 words)

	[No title]
		These verses were written extempore, immediately after reading a notice of the Ettrick Shepherd's death in the Newcastle paper, to the Editor of which I sent a copy for publication.
		How the Ettrick Shepherd and I became known to each other has already been mentioned in these notes.
		Upon this husband I never heard her cast the least reproach, nor did I ever hear her even name him, though she did not wholly forbear to touch upon her domestic position; but never so as that any fault could be found with her manner of adverting to it.
	www.bartleby.com /145/ww8670.html (745 words)

	James Hogg
		Hogg was born on a farm near Ettrick Forest[?] in Selkirkshire[?].
		He had little education, and became a shepherd, hence his nickname, "The Ettrick Shepherd".
		In 1796, his employer, William Laidlaw of Blackhouse, seeing how hard he was working to improve himself, offered to help by making books available.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/James_Hogg.html (281 words)

	The Other 70%
		It is an agricultural area on the River Ettrick which is a tributary of the Tweed.
		The Ettrick Shepherd was the title given to James Hogg, who was born in Ettrick Hall in 1770 in the small parish of Ettrick.
		When he became the shepherd for William Laidlaw he was given full access to the house library.
	www.electricscotland.com /familytree/magazine/augsep2005/story20.htm (445 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 19 (August 2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		James Hogg (1770-1835), known as 'The Ettrick Shepherd', was widely regarded in his own lifetime as one of the major British literary figures of the generation of Scott, Coleridge, and Wordsworth.
		(4) The 'Scotch Shepherd' was undoubtedly regarded by his contemporaries as a man of powerful and original talent, but it was felt that his lack of education caused his writings to be seriously marred by frequent failures in discretion, expression, and knowledge of the world.
		The Ettrick Shepherd [...] was much more comfortable to be with than James Hogg, the author of obsessive, experimental fictions which either satirised or ignored the decencies of polite letters.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2000/v/n19/005934ar.html (6817 words)

	Books \| Going the whole Hogg with the pastoral Freud
		The man who achieved fame as 'the Ettrick Shepherd' never enjoyed the benefits of electric light, and yet as Karl Miller demonstrates in this extraordinary book, James Hogg lived in an age in which literary and intellectual contention moved at e-speed.
		Hogg was born at Ettrickhall Farm in Selkirkshire in 1770.
		As a young shepherd, he received a patchy education but inherited a vast store of balladry from his mother.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4734949-99942,00.html (620 words)

	EdinburghGuide.com :: View topic - Ettrick shepherd literary exhibition
		James Hogg, known from his humble beginnings as the 'Ettrick Shepherd', is currently undergoing a critical reassessment.
		The self-taught shepherd's earthy songs and stories depicting social hardships of rural life and his often racy, humorous tales, derived from his impoverished Ettrick childhood, made him the natural successor to Burns.
		From his lowly shepherding background in the Ettrick Valley, Hogg's early self-presentation was as the inheritor of Burns; the shepherd-poet of the Borders.
	www.edinburghguide.com /edgforum/viewtopic.php?t=2782 (780 words)

	XV.1: CURRIE. Re-Visioning James Hogg
		Hogg was born in the Ettrick valley in the Scottish Borders in 1770, and he had lived in or close to the next valley, Yarrow, for over twenty years until his death at Altrive Lake, his cottage on the banks of the Yarrow River.
		‘Ettrick Shepherd’ was the mantle Hogg adopted early in his writing career, and the name by which he was internationally known.
		That some notable bard flourished in Ettrick Forest in that age, is evident from numerous ballads and songs which relate to places in that country, and incidents that happened there.
	www.cf.ac.uk /encap/romtext/articles/rt15_n01.html (8632 words)

	BC Museum: James Hogg, Part I
		James Hogg was born the second son of Robert Hogg and Margaret Laidlaw in the parish of Ettrick in the Borders of Scotland in 1770.
		My father, like myself, was bred to the occupation of a shepherd." His ancestors had been small farmers, but by the time of the poet's birth their fortunes had declined.
		By the time he was 15 he had served dozens of farms as shepherd, and at the age of about 20 he became herd to the Laidlaws of Blackhouse in the Yarrow Valley, and served them for 9 years.
	www.gis.net /~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/hogg_1.html (996 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Review \| James Hogg: poet and shepherd
		In his ghosted capacity as Ettrick Shepherd, Hogg took part in the voicing of such opinions.
		The mistake is to suppose that the Shepherd comedy devised by Wilson and Lockhart is an ill thing, or a trivial thing, and an unmitigated assault on Hogg.
		But the Shepherd could also feel, when at the receiving end, that "it's no decent to be aye meddling wi' folks' personalities".
	books.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,12084,1014630,00.html (2818 words)

	Excerpts from Goodrich on the Shepherd's Dog, the Drover's Dog, the Lurcher and the Cur
		Whatever differences there may be in the breeds, they have all the same substantial character of intelligence and devotion to their duties.
		Well may the shepherd feel an interest in his dog: he it is indeedthat earns the family bread, with the smallest morsel of which he is himself content,--always grateful and always ready to exert his utmost abilities in his master's interests.
		The shepherd's dog knows not what is astir, and, if he is called out in a hurry for such work, all that he will do is to run to the hill, or rear himself on his haunches to see that no sheep are running away.
	izebug.syr.edu /~gsbisco/c&j/johnson.htm (1302 words)

	Chapter Sheep <i>to</i> Shepherd-Kings of S by Brewer's Readers Handbook
		SHEPHERD (The), Moses, who for forty years fed the flocks of Jethro his father-in-law.
		Shepherd (John Claridge), the signature adopted by the author of The Shepherd of Banbury’s Rules to Judge of the Changes of Weather, etc.
		B.—Apophis or Aphophis was not a shepherd-king, but a pharaoh or native ruler, who made Apachnas tributary, and succeeded him, but on the death of Aphophis the hyksos were restored.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/174/1129/14989/3.html (223 words)

	HOGG, JAMES (1770-1835) - Online Information article about HOGG, JAMES (1770-1835) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HIG_HOR/HOGG_JAMES_1770_1835_.html (1692 words)

	scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Born the son of a tenant farmer at Ettrick, in the Scottish Borders, in late November or early December 1770.
		Hogg spent his early years as a shepherd, and became known as 'the Ettrick Shepherd.' His father finally failed as a farmer, and so did James.
		As a shepherd, Hogg will no doubt have seen this himself, and here he describes it as seen on Arthur's Seat, the hill which rises out of the city of Edinburgh.
	www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=75 (483 words)

	R. Incorvati: "Dialogue and Marginality in James Hogg's Confessions of a Justified Sinner"
		Laidlaw, the Lowland shepherd, claims to value the pamphlet not for its potential to explain, but rather for its potential to exceed understanding, or, as he says, "It will maybe reveal some mystery that mankind disna ken naething about yet" (240).
		The old shepherd must rather submissively request that the editor be allowed to have the text since Lockhart "had so many things of literature and law to attend to," and it is likely that "he would never think more of it" (240).
		Already we have seen the alignment of mystery with the rustic character of the Lowland Shepherd, William Laidlaw, but Hogg represents the deferral of judgment most explicitly among the disempowered rustics with whom Robert takes shelter in the course of his flight away from Edinburgh and into marginal culture.
	prometheus.cc.emory.edu /panels/4c/R.Incorvati.html (2664 words)

	Department of English Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Previous editions which are useful but bowdlerised are Tales and Sketches by the Ettrick Shepherd, 6 vols (Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1836-37), The Poetical Works of the Ettrick Shepherd, 5 vols (Glasgow: Blackie and Son, 1838-40), and The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd, ed.
		Edith C. Batho's Bibliography in The Ettrick Shepherd (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1927), is still useful, together with her supplementary 'Notes on the Bibliography of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd', in The Library, 16 (1935-36), 309-26.
		Much valuable information may be obtained from Mrs M. Garden's memoir of her father, Memorials of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd (London: Alexander Gardner, 1885), and from Mrs Norah Parr's account of Hogg's domestic life in James Hogg at Home (Dollar: Douglas S. Mack, 1980).
	www.english.stir.ac.uk /centres/hoggselbib.htm (473 words)

	The Baldwin Project: Fifty Famous People by James Baldwin
		Sometimes [25] he would take care of the whole flock while the shepherd was resting or eating his dinner.
		But there was no shepherd in Scotland that could have done better than Sirrah did that night.
		He was often called the Ettrick Shepherd, because he was the keeper of sheep near the Ettrick Water.
	www.mainlesson.com /display.php?author=baldwin&book=people&story=shepherd (635 words)

	"Mary Burnet" by James Hogg
		With an exhausted frame, and a despairing heart, he was obliged again to seek the shore, and, dripping wet as he was, and half-naked, he ran to her father's house with the woeful tidings.
		The good old shepherd, finding enough of grief there already, was obliged to confine his to his own bosom, and return disconsolate to his little family circle, in which there was a woeful blank that night.
		The devout shepherds and cottages around detested him; and, both in their families and in the wild, when there was no ear to hear but that of Heaven, they prayed protection from his devices, as if he had been the Wicked One; and they all prophesied that he would make a bad end.
	www.litgothic.com /Texts/mary_burnet.html (7851 words)

	ETTRICK - Online Information article about ETTRICK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Hogg, the " Ettrick shepherd " (the site of the cottage being marked by a See also:
		Napier and Ettrick, a descendant of the Napiers of Merchiston, and beside it is the ruin of the stronghold that belonged to See also:
		baronet), and the men of Yarrow vale, championed by the Ettrick shepherd.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /EMS_EUD/ETTRICK.html (619 words)

	cycling scotland england loch fell
		A fine route which attempts to link the top of the Ettrick valley with the Dryffe valley to the south.
		James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, is buried in the nearby churchyard alongside his grandfather, Will O' Phaup, and you might want to have a look at the inscriptions on the headstones located directly south of the church tower.
		It's a gentle, but sustained, ride up to the watershed which is reached just as you enter the trees at the top of the valley.
	www3.clearlight.com /bikeroutes/routes/lochfell.htm (640 words)

	BC Museum: James Hogg
		Because of his involvement with the shepherd's dog in his work as a shepherd, and his devotion to his working collies, Hector and Sirrah, both of whom he wrote about extensively, describing their personalities and working style in great detail, James Hogg is an icon in the history of the Border Collie.
		Includes the Life of James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd; and five works: "The Brownie of Bodsbeck"; "The Wool-Gatherer"; "The Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon"; "A Tale of Penland"; and "Ewan M'Gabher".
		Includes many of the Ettrick Shepherd's tales, including "The Hunt of Eildon" and "The Shepherd's Calendar" (itself containing 19 short stories or essays, including a tale called "The Shepherd's Dog").
	www.gis.net /~shepdog/BC_Museum/Permanent/hogg_top.html (637 words)

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