HOGG, JAMES ( 77(1-1 835 ) . A Scottish poet, known as the 'Ettriek Shepherd,' born in the par ish of Ettriek, Solkirkshire, in 1770. His father was a poor farmer. The boy's education was slight, for he was taken from school to herd ewes. But from his mother lie learned many folk-tales of giants, fairies, and brownies. Be ginning to make songs for lasses to sing in chorus. he next wrote them out with great labor. 11 is poem was anonymously in 1500. Going to Edinburgh, in 1801, to sell his employer's sheep, be wrote out from memory a little eollection of his songs and published them roughly as Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs, (IC. The next year lie made the acquaintance of Scott, who was visiting the (trick forest in search of material for the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Bor der. Several ballads a hid) 'Hogg, and his mother furnished appeared in the third volume of the Minstrelsy 11803). In 1807 Hogg published The Mountain Bard, original fiallads suggested by Scott. With the proceeds of this volume and a treatise on sheep, amounting to 1300, Hogg took a farm, which proved a disastrous venture. In 1S10 he went to Edinburgh and began as pro fessional author. Three years later appeared his most imaginative poem, The Queen's Wake. By this time lie was becoming acquainted, directly or correspondence, with some of the most eminent men of letters, who admired MID greatly, He married in 1520, and retired to the farm of Eltrive Lake, in the valley of the Yarrow. Ile
died November 21, 1535, and was buried in the Et trick churchyard. In 1560 a monument was erected to his memory, overlooking Saint Mary's Lake. llogg was immortalized as the Ettriek Shepherd by Wilson in the :Codes Ambrosiamr. Among his poems not cited above are Mador of the Moor, The Pilgrims of the Sun. The Jacobite Relies of Scotland, Queen Mimic, and The Border Garland. These and other poems place Hogg, after Burns, among the greatest of the peasant poets of Scotland. Well known are such songs as "When the Nye comes Mime" and "Flora Mac donald's Farewell." llogg also wrote many tales of uneven quality. The most remarkable is en titled Confessions of a Fanatic. Interest ing, too, is the volume called Winter Evening Tales, de picting the manners of the border. Consult: Works, edited with memoirs by T. Thomson (Lon don. 1565) ; "Poems." selected, in Canterbury (London, 1850) ; and 3Ionoria/s of .1. Hogg, by his daughter, Mrs. Garden (London, 1855).