‘What a wonderful boy he is!’ said my mother. ‘I’m feared he turn out to be a conceited gowk,’ said old Barnet, the minister’s man.
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Where the pools are bright and deep, Where the grey trout lies asleep, Up the river and o’er the lea, That’s the way for Billy and me.
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Birth: | 11th December, 1770 |
Death: | 21st November, 1835 |
Nationality: | British, Scottish |
Profession: | Essayist, Journalist, Novelist, Poet |
James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an unauthorized biography. He became widely known as the "Ettrick Shepherd", a nickname under which some of his works were published, and the character name he was given in the widely read series Noctes Ambrosianae, published in Blackwood's Magazine.
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