The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Tale (Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected) - Softcover

Hogg, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0748620885 ISBN 13: 9780748620883

Verlag: Edinburgh University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

The Queen’s Wake is one of the landmarks of British Romantic poetry. It focuses on the return of Mary, Queen of Scots to Scotland in 1561 to take personal rule of her kingdom after her years in France. In the poem poets and bards hold a poetic competition (a ‘wake’) in Holyrood Palace to welcome the Queen home.When The Queen’s Wake was published in 1813 it proved an unexpected popular success, placing Hogg for a while alongside Byron and Scott as one of the most admired British poets of that time. Over the next six years Hogg made substantial revisions, making the poem even more attractive and saleable. The fifth edition (1819) is an enhanced and carefully polished version from a now established and respected poet. It is markedly different from the edgy, powerful and unsettling first version, which was the work of an impecunious and marginalised outsider. This book presents both the first and fifth edition of the poem.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

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 called Hogg's Kaleidoscopic Art.

Janette Currie is MHRA Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling.

The late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.

Meiko O'Halloran is Lecturer in English Literature at the Newcastle University Janette Currie is MHRA Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0748620885
• ISBN 13: 9780748620883
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 470
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