Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems

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. The late Jill Rubenstein was Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, and the editor of James Hogg's Anecdotes of Scott among other scholarly works relating to Scott, Hogg, and their contemporaries. Gillian Hughes, Independent Scholar, has been a General Editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg, and is currently an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott’s Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers, and also a biography of James Hogg. 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.

• Essay on the Genesis of the Texts; Introduction; 'Circling the pales of Heaven' - Hogg and Otherworld Journeys from Dante to Byron; Midsummer Night Dreams and Related Poems; Hogg's Notes; Appendix 1 - MS Fragment of 'The Field of Waterloo. A Poem'; Appendix 2 - Hogg's MS Notes to The Pilgrims of the Sun'; Note on the Texts; Editorial Notes; Glossary.