Author: Sir John SinclairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish Gaelic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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A Dissertation on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian
Author: Sir John SinclairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scottish Gaelic poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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The Poems of Ossian
Author: Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland, Appointed to Inquire Into the Nature and Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780461584608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Ossianic Unconformities
Author: Eric GidalPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 081393818X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
In a sequence of publications in the 1760s, James Macpherson, a Scottish schoolteacher in the central Highlands, created fantastic epics of ancient heroes and presented them as genuine translations of the poetry of Ossian, a fictionalized Caledonian bard of the third century. In Ossianic Unconformities Eric Gidal introduces the idiosyncratic publications of a group of nineteenth-century Scottish eccentrics who used statistics, cartography, and geomorphology to map and thereby vindicate Macpherson's controversial eighteenth-century renderings of Gaelic oral traditions. Although these writers primarily sought to establish the authenticity of Macpherson's "translations," they came to record, through promotion, evasion, and confrontation, the massive changes being wrought upon Scottish and Irish lands by British industrialization. Their obsessive and elaborate attempts to fix both the poetry and the land into a stable set of coordinates developed what we can now perceive as a nascent ecological perspective on literature in a changing world. Gidal examines the details of these imaginary geographies in conjunction with the social and spatial histories of Belfast and the River Lagan valley, Glasgow and the Firth of Clyde, and the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, regions that form both the sixth-century kingdom of Dál Riata and the fabled terrain of the Ossianic poems. Combining environmental and industrial histories with the reception of the poems of Ossian, Ossianic Unconformities unites literary history and book studies with geography, cartography, and geology to present and consider imaginative responses to environmental catastrophe.
Essay on the Authenticity of the Poems of Ossian
Author: Patrick GrahamNotes on the Authenticity of Ossian's Poems
Author: Archibald MacNeillEssay on the authenticity of the poems of Ossian; in which the objections of Malcolm Laing, Esq. are particularly considered, and refuted. To which is added, an essay on the mythology of Ossian's poems, by Professor Richardson, of Glasgow College
Author: Patrick GRAHAM (Minister of Aberfoyle.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760) ...
Author: James MacphersonPublisher:
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Category : Scottosj poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books: Together with Several Other Poems, Composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal
Author: Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem
Author: James MacphersonPublisher:
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Category : Ossian
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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