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Excerpt from James Hogg and His Poetry
In this volume* an attempt has been made to confine selection to what of Hogg's work deserves to survive. Only The Queen's Wake has been printed entire, although a considerable proportion of it is as second rate as Mador of the Moor and Hogg's other ambitious essays, 'which are as dead as Thalaba. His prose scarcely fails to be noticed here; but it may be said that he de rived his inspiration in this medium also from Scott, and that, working upon ample materials, historical, adventurous, tragic, magical, he combined great fluency with supreme weak ness in construction. His Confessions of a Fanatic, which has been erroneously ascribed to other hands, is, however, perfect in its way, and shows what Hogg could have done had he but taken pains to master the art which Scott himself had to learn. But art was to Hogg, as readers of The Queen's Wake will see, some thing to be eschewed as inimical to inspiration. The article forms the introduction to a selection of James Hogg's poems edited and annotated by Professor William Wallace, LL.D. Isbister 8: Co., Ltd. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
