The International Companion to James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian Paperback / softback
Edited by Dafydd Moore
Part of the International Companions to Scottish Literature series
Paperback / softback
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James Macpherson's "poems of Ossian", first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, were the literary sensation of the age.
Attacked by Samuel Johnson and others as "forgeries", nonetheless the poems enthralled readers around the world, attracting rapturous admiration from such figures as diverse as Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte and Mendelssohn.
This International Companion examines the social, political and philosophical context of the poems, their disputed origins, their impact on world literature, and the various critical afterlives of Macpherson and of "Ossian".
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Publication Date:21/02/2017
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- ISBN:9781908980199
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:256 pages
- Publisher:Association for Scottish Literary Studies
- Publication Date:21/02/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781908980199
