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Article: Hogg faces a move from the margins into the mainstream
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- April 25, 2000
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HE HAS always been ranked somewhere below the other members of
the great triumvirate of Scottish literary greats who took the world
by storm between 1780 and 1820.
Long after his death the works of James Hogg, the Ettrick
Shepherd, continue to be undervalued when set alongside the prose
and poetry of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott.
But now Hogg, the humble farmhand from the Borders who became the
toast of London's literati 180 years ago, seems set to claim his
rightful place in writing's hall of fame.
An academic who was "bowled over" by his works when she
discovered them for the during her student days has given Hogg his
own internet website.
There are also plans for many of his works to ...