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Kinnaird House near Dunkeld in Perthshire, where his hostess Eliza Izett urged him to write something about the River Tay. He decided to produce a narrative rather than a purely descriptive poem. He seems to have completed composition in
122:) and his followers hear 'The Harper's Song' sung by the minstrel Gilbert of Shiel, telling of an old man caring for a baby girl serenaded by fairies. Just such an old man arrives and beckons the king away: when the monarch returns, he finds that his hunters have been mysteriously slain.
151:, evidencing a wide variety of responses. There was considerable appreciation of Hogg's powers of natural description, but a widespread view that he was less happy with the Spenserian stanza than he had been with the ballad form. The supernatural elements were a cause of discontent.
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Christening): Arriving at Stirling, Ila is informed that the name of Mador is unknown there, but through the intervention of the Abbot of Dunfermline it is revealed that Mador is the king. The couple are married and their son christened with his father's name.
32:. Set in late medieval Scotland, it tells of the seduction of a young maiden by a charismatic minstrel and her journey to Stirling in search of him, leading to the revelation that he is the king and finally to their marriage and the christening of their son.
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Minstrel): Ila Moore, betrothed to her father's liege lord Albert of the Glen, is wooed by a charismatic and capricious figure, the visiting minstrel Mador of the Moor, who flees when attacked by Albert.
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A critical edition, by James E. Barcus, appeared in 2005 as Volume 16 in the
Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Complete Works of James Hogg published by Edinburgh University Press.
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Canto Fourth (The Palmer): Ila sets out to find Mador. On the way she is joined by a protective palmer, who confesses that in the past his sexual misconduct led to infanticide.
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90:) volume with the title 'The Gyre Caryl'. It was to appear again, reworked in a modernised and more reader-friendly form, as 'Superstition and Grace', in the annual
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Conclusion: The poet addresses his harp, urging it to return from its
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Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
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Collected Letters of James Hogg: Volume 1 1800‒1819
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Mador of the Moor; A Poem. By James Hogg, Author of
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111:Introduction: The poet addresses the River Tay.
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155:References
36:Background
26:James Hogg
531:River Tay
283:Works by
143:Reception
116:Robert II
100:in 1832.
92:The Bijou
59:Editions
367:The Spy
292:Fiction
120:James V
107:Summary
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233:, xxi.
477:Songs
244:ibid.
231:Ibid.
219:Ibid.
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