The mountain bard

consisting of ballads and songs, founded on facts and legendary tales

by James Hogg

1807 202 pages eng

"Hogg grew up in rural Ettrick Forest in a notable family of tradition-bearers, and in his first major poetry collection The Mountain Bard of 1807 he claims his rightful position at the centre of that culture. Whereas Scott collected the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border Hogg was the sole author of …