{"product_id":"the-queens-wake-a-legendary-tale-9780748620883","title":"The Queen's Wake: A Legendary Tale","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Queen's Wake\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Queen's Wake\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeiko 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanette Currie is MHRA Research Fellow in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe late Douglas S. Mack was formerly Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Stirling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903549608210,"sku":"9780748620883","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3cb12660-7b8c-4780-8ff5-549c68f77fc6.jpg?v=1738497431","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-queens-wake-a-legendary-tale-9780748620883","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}