ABSTRACT
James Hogg (1770–1835), the ‘Ettrick Shepherd’, friend of Scott, Wordsworth and Southey, included two parodies of Southey in The Poetic Mirror, or The Living Bards of Britain. ‘The Curse of the Laureate’, a parody of Carmen Nuptiale, is reprinted here from the edition by T. E. Welby (1929). In 1814 Southey described Hogg as ‘a man of very extraordinary powers’ (Life, iv, p. 93).
