A Critical Edition of James Hogg's Scottish Pastorals: Together with Other Early Poems and 'Letters on Poetry'

该项目的主要目的是制作苏格兰作家詹姆斯·霍格（1770-1835）早期作品的评论版。作为沃尔特·斯科特爵士的同时代人，霍格现在赢得了新的赞赏，因为他的作品正在被系统地恢复和重新出版。他出生于埃特里克山谷的一个牧羊家庭，童年时非常贫穷。几乎完全自学成才，他长大后成为一个多产的作家的诗歌，歌曲，小说，故事，散文和戏剧，并移动之间的口头文化，他的边界家和复杂的文学文化的世纪早期爱丁堡。早期关注他的根源在劳动阶级，有争议的关系，与出版界在他的生活，以及随后的bowdlerising他的作品，他们认为'不精致'的结果，随着时间的推移，在他的失踪从佳能直到恢复他的声誉开始在世纪中期。斯特林/南卡罗来纳州研究版的收集作品詹姆斯霍格（以下简称S/SC版）是通过提供一个严格的研究现代收集版在39卷的复苏发挥了重要作用。到目前为止，爱丁堡大学出版社出版了24册精装版的S/SC，受到普遍好评，其中9册迄今已重印平装本。本建议旨在完成即将出版的《安全与安保》卷的编写工作。这本书中收录的诗歌和散文作品早已绝版，其中许多是从世纪初霍格在世时开始的，拟议中的这本书将收录霍格的第一本诗集《苏格兰牧歌》（1801），这本诗集以小册子的形式出版时，他30岁，在埃特里克山谷经营着埃特里克豪斯的牧羊场。苏格兰牧歌的诗歌提供了一幅世纪早期苏格兰农村生活的惊人画面，包含了大量的原始能量。这个系列也显示了霍格探索他后来的诗歌冒险的潜在模式。特别是，像罗伯特·伯恩斯（Robert Burns）等其他劳动阶级诗人一样，这位来自埃特里克的牧羊诗人从一个与来自更优越背景的诗人不同的方向来处理艾伦·拉姆齐（Allan Ramsay）的《温柔的牧羊人》（The Gentle Shepherd）等作品，并在此过程中改写了18世纪田园诗的许多惯例。该卷还将包括其他早期的诗歌没有在其他地方发表的S/SC版，从而完成了该版本的覆盖这方面的霍格的职业生涯。《一夜的错误》（1794年）是一首即将被收录的诗歌，这是一个充满活力的乡村求爱故事。此外，该卷将包括霍格的“诗歌书信”，这出现在苏格兰杂志1805年5月和1806年1月：他们从来没有重印。这些有趣的早期文献显示了他对莎士比亚和18世纪作家（包括波普、斯威夫特、斯特恩、金匠、汤姆森和伯恩斯）的自信把握，以及他对戏剧的热情。这些“书信”还揭示了霍格对自己的阅读和创作过程的敏锐而浪漫的认识。该项目的工作还将涉及寻找霍格早期的其他诗歌和歌曲，以及研究霍格为斯科特的《苏格兰边境的吟游诗人》（1802-03）贡献的民谣。爱丁堡大学出版社已接受出版该卷，并签署了合同。

The major aim of this project is to produce a critical edition of selected early work by the Scottish writer James Hogg (1770-1835). A contemporary of Sir Walter Scott, Hogg is now earning new appreciation as his work is being systematically recovered and republished. The son of a sheep-farming family in Ettrick Valley, he suffered great poverty in his childhood. Almost completely self-educated, he grew up to be a prolific writer of poetry, songs, novels, stories, essays, and plays, and to move between the oral culture of his Borders home and the sophisticated literary culture of early-nineteenth-century Edinburgh. Early focus on his roots in the labouring classes, contentious relations with the publishing world during his life, and subsequent bowdlerising of his works for their perceived 'indelicacy' resulted, over time, in his disappearance from the canon until a recovery of his reputation began in the mid-twentieth century.The Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg (hereafter S/SC Edition) is playing a major role in that recovery by providing a rigorously researched modern collected edition in 39 volumes. To date 24 hardback S/SC volumes have been published by Edinburgh University Press to general acclaim, 9 of which have so far been reprinted in paperback. This proposal seeks to complete the preparation of a forthcoming S/SC volume. The poems and prose pieces to be included in this volume are long out of print, many of them since Hogg's lifetime at the beginning of the nineteenth century.The proposed volume will include Hogg's first collection of poems, Scottish Pastorals (1801), which was published in pamphlet form when he was thirty years old and running the sheep-farm of Ettrickhouse in the Ettrick valley. The poems of Scottish Pastorals offer a striking picture of rural Scottish life in the early nineteenth century and contain a good deal of raw energy. This collection also shows Hogg exploring potential models for his later poetic ventures. In particular, like other labouring-class poets such as Robert Burns, this shepherd-poet from Ettrick approached works such as Allan Ramsay's The Gentle Shepherd from a different direction than had poets from more privileged backgrounds, and in so doing he rewrote many conventions of eighteenth-century pastoral. The volume will also include other early poems not published elsewhere within the S/SC Edition, thus completing the edition's coverage of this aspect of Hogg's career. One of the poems to be included is 'The Mistakes of a Night' (1794), an energetically rumbustious tale of rural courtship. In addition, the volume will include Hogg's 'Letters on Poetry', which appeared in The Scots Magazine for May 1805 and January 1806: they have never been reprinted. These interesting early documents demonstrate his confident grasp of Shakespeare and eighteenth-century writers including Pope, Swift, Sterne, Goldsmith, Thomson, and Burns, as well as his passion for theatre. The 'Letters' also reveal Hogg's acute, and very Romantic, awareness of his own processes of reading and composition.Work on the project will also involve a search for other early Hogg poems and songs, as well as research into the ballads that Hogg contributed to Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-03).Edinburgh University Press has accepted the volume for publication, and a contract has been signed.