The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Tale / Edition 1

by James Hogg, Meiko O'Halloran, Douglas S. Mack, Janette Currie

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780748620883
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	07/11/2005
Series:	The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	470
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

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

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

Table of Contents

Introduction; The Queen's Wake (1813); The Queen's Wake (1819); Note on the Text; Notes; Glossary

What People are Saying About This

Valentina Bold

This is sure to delight the international academic community, as well as appeal to the poetry-reading public... this book will fill a much-needed gap, and allow the continued appreciation of Hogg's work as much more than merely the Ettrick Shepherd.

— Valentina Bold, University of Glasgow

Editorial Reviews

[This] edition of The Queen's Wake is a remarkable piece of scholarship.

Scotia - Sharon Alker

A necessary and commendable effort to present... [Hogg's] entire corpus in a welcome research edition.

Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies - Rhona Brown

A necessary and commendable effort to present... [Hogg's] entire corpus in a welcome research edition.

— Rhona Brown

Scotia: Interdisciplinary Journal of Scottish Studies

[This] edition of The Queen's Wake is a remarkable piece of scholarship.

— Sharon Alker

Scotia