Electric Shepherd: A Likeness of James Hogg

by Karl Miller

Electric Shepherd is a likeness of James Hogg, Scottish Borderer and international literary star, who shared an epoch and an environment with Walter Scott. His novel, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner, is one of the great works of European Romanticism.

416 pages, Paperback

First published August 18, 2004

About the author

Karl Fergus Connor Miller FRSL was a Scottiish literary editor, critic and writer. He was educated at the Royal High School of Edinburgh and Downing College, Cambridge, where he studied English; he was a Cambridge Apostle. He became literary editor of The Spectator and the New Statesman. Miller resigned from the latter over a disagreement with the magazine's editor Paul Johnson, over the extent to which the literary pages treated difficult subjects and also Johnson's disapproval of The Beatles and their fans.

He was then editor of The Listener (1967–73) and subsequently of the London Review of Books, which he founded, from 1979 to 1992. He was also Lord Northcliffe Professor of Modern English Literature and head of the English Department at University College London from 1974 to 1992.

Reviews

[Ancien Parisian]

I don't understand why Miller is considered an expert (or at least, some great enthusiast and reviver) of Hogg when he fails to intuit his subject.