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

这个项目的主要目的是为苏格兰作家詹姆斯·霍格（James Hogg, 1770-1835）精选的早期作品制作一个批判版。霍格与沃尔特·斯科特爵士（Sir Walter Scott）是同时代的人，随着他的作品被系统地修复和重新出版，霍格现在正获得新的赏识。作为埃特里克山谷一个牧羊家庭的儿子，他的童年非常贫困。他几乎完全是自学成才，长大后成为一名多产的诗人，创作了诗歌、歌曲、小说、故事、散文和戏剧，并在Borders家乡的口头文化和19世纪早期爱丁堡的复杂文学文化之间穿梭。早期关注他在劳动阶级的根源，在他的生活中与出版界有争议的关系，随后他的作品被认为“不雅”而被删减，随着时间的推移，他从佳能中消失，直到他的名声在20世纪中期开始恢复。斯特林/南卡罗莱纳研究版的詹姆斯·霍格选集（以下简称S/SC版）通过提供一个严格研究的39卷现代选集，在恢复中发挥了重要作用。迄今为止，爱丁堡大学出版社出版了24本精装本S/SC卷，广受好评，其中9本迄今已以平装本重印。这项建议旨在完成即将出版的S/SC卷的编写工作。本书收录的诗歌和散文作品早已绝版，其中许多是霍格在世时（19世纪初）写的。拟出版的这本书将包括霍格的第一本诗集《苏格兰牧歌》（1801年），这本书以小册子的形式出版，当时他30岁，在埃特里克山谷经营着埃特里克庄园的养羊场。《苏格兰牧歌》的诗歌展现了19世纪早期苏格兰乡村生活的一幅震撼人心的画面，包含了大量原始的能量。这本合集也显示了霍格为他后来的诗歌冒险探索潜在的模式。特别是，像其他劳动阶级诗人，如罗伯特·伯恩斯一样，这位来自埃特里克的牧羊诗人从不同的方向来看待像艾伦·拉姆齐的《温柔的牧羊人》这样的作品，而不是来自更有特权背景的诗人，因此他改写了许多18世纪牧歌的惯例。该卷还将包括其他未在S/SC版本中发表的早期诗歌，从而完成该版本对霍格职业生涯这方面的覆盖。其中一首诗是《夜晚的错误》（the errors of a Night, 1794），这是一首充满活力的乡村求爱故事。此外，这本书还将包括霍格的《诗歌书信》，它曾于1805年5月和1806年1月出现在《苏格兰人》杂志上，此后从未再版。这些有趣的早期文件显示了他对莎士比亚和18世纪作家的自信把握，包括波普、斯威夫特、斯特恩、戈德史密斯、汤姆森和伯恩斯，以及他对戏剧的热情。“信件”也揭示了霍格对自己的阅读和写作过程的敏锐和非常浪漫的意识。该项目的工作还包括寻找其他早期霍格的诗歌和歌曲，以及研究霍格为斯科特的苏格兰边境吟游诗人（1802-03）所做的叙事诗。爱丁堡大学出版社已经同意出版这本书，并签署了一份合同。

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.