The Reception of Ossian in Europe
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James Macpherson''s Poems of Ossian, said to be translations from the Gaelic of a third-century bard, caused a sensation on their first appearance in the early 1760s. Contrary to the impression often conveyed in literary histories, enthusiasm for the poetry of the ''Homer of the North'' cannot be dismissed as a short-lived fad, for its appeal lasted a century or more, both at home and abroad. Ther...
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James Macpherson''s Poems of Ossian, said to be translations from the Gaelic of a third-century bard, caused a sensation on their first appearance in the early 1760s. Contrary to the impression often conveyed in literary histories, enthusiasm for the poetry of the ''Homer of the North'' cannot be dismissed as a short-lived fad, for its appeal lasted a century or more, both at home and abroad. Ther...
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