Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems

James Hogg

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March, 2009
Cloth, 344 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-2440-9
Edinburgh University Press
$95.00

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. Included among the poems are "The Pilgrims of the Sun," which seeks to demonstrate Hogg's command not only of his native Scottish tradition of poetry but also of the English tradition of Milton and Pope; the weirdly brilliant "Connel of Dee;" "The Gyre Caryl," in which Hogg recounts the birth of Heavenly Grace and the departure of the fairies from Scotland; and "Verses Addressed to the Right Honourable Lady Anne Scott of Buccleuch." Taken together these works substantiate Hogg's claim to be the "King o' the mountain and fairy school" of poetry.

Related Subjects

• Poetry

Series

• Collected Works of James Hogg (Edinburgh University Press)

About the Author

The late Jill Rubenstein was professor of English at the University of Cincinnati and the editor of James Hogg's Anecdotes of Scott, among other scholarly works relating to Scott, Hogg, and their contemporaries. Gillian Hughes is the author of the biography James Hogg: A Life and editor of the journal Studies in Hogg and his World. She is a general editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Edition and has edited or coedited seven previous volumes in the series. Meiko O'Halloran is a lecturer in English literature at Newcastle University. She contributed an essay to the Stirling/South Carolina Edition volume of The Queen's Wake and is currently preparing a monograph entitled Hogg's Kaleidoscopic Art.

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