INVENTORY #150541
The Poems of Ossian
MACPHERSON, James (trans.)
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James Macpherson (1736 96) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician best remembered for these poems of Ossian, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic. Based on Celtic mythology, the poems were supposedly sung by the blind bard Ossian. The authenticity of these so-called translations from the works of a 3rd-century bard was immediately challenged by historians, especially Charles O'Conor, who noted technical errors in chronology and the forming of Gaelic names. Samuel Johnson, believed Macpherson had found fragments of poems and stories and wove them into a romance of his own composition. Regardless of Macpherson's charlatanry, "Ossian" shows a deep appreciation of natural beauty and melancholy tenderness typical of the later Romantic era.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Printed for C. and J. Rivington, et al
- Edition: n/a
- Date Published: 1825
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
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- Condition: Very good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
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- Details:
455 p. 14 cm. Frontispiece engraving and title page vignette. Quarter red leather with marbled paper boards. Gold and blank impressing on spine. Marbled edges and endpapers. Ribbon marker. Buttom front corner bumped and edges worn. Paper discoloured at top of each board. Ink signature on a front page.