Scottish Pastorals (1801), containing five poems and two songs, was the first book published by James Hogg.

In 1800, most likely August or September, by his own account, Hogg had time on his hands during a trip to Edinburgh to sell sheep. Aware of his poetic gift—though only one poem of his had so far appeared in print, in The Scots Magazine for 1794—he found a printer's shop next to the market, wrote out 'a poem or two' from memory, and had them printed as a 62-page booklet. This may be a true recollection, though Hogg had shown a manuscript of the collection to friends before it was published.

Scottish Pastorals, Poems, Songs, &c. Mostly Written in the Dialect of the South. By James Hogg was printed in Edinburgh by John Taylor, Grassmarket. A thousand copies were printed, selling at a shilling.

In 1988 Stirling University Press published a critical edition by Elaine Petrie.

Geordie Fa's Dirge

Dusty, or, Watie an' Geordie's Review of Politics; An Eclogue

Willie an' Keatie, A Pastoral

A Dialogue in a Country Church-Yard