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Even during his life Hogg underwent a curious process of mythopoeia at the hands of Wilson and the other wits of Blackwood's Magazine, who made him partly with his own consent, partly not into the famous "Ettrick Shepherd" of the Noctes Ambrosianæ. "The Shepherd" has Hogg's exterior features and a good many of his foibles, but is endowed with considerably more than his genius.
How should he imagine that people who make such positive statements about their own country are merely exploiting his credulity? HE has reached a stage of culture where such mythopoeia has become impossible. On the other hand, to control information by consulting original sources lies beyond his capacity.
For mythopoeia is just this, the incarnating the spirit of natural fact; and the generic name of that power is Art. This substance, I have said, is the spirit of natural fact. Thus much of explanation, I am sorry to say, is necessary, before we turn to our mytho-poet of Florence, to see what he made out of the story of Judith.
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