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BLIND OSSIAN'S FINGAL
FRAGMENTS AND CONTROVERSY |
| By: |
James Macpherson, Allan Burnett, Linda Andersson Burnett |
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Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1906817553 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781906817558 |
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| Publisher: |
LUATH PRESS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2011 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
James Macpherson's translations of the poetry of Ossian, a third-century Highland Bard, were an instant success. But were the poems part of a great Gaelic oral tradition, or the work of Macpherson's imagination? |
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Ossian is a collection of epic poems that bring out the figure of the hero, Fingal, which name comes from Scots Gaelic Fionnghall, meaning 'White Stranger'. The poems where originally written in Gaelic and translated by James MacPherson into English, although there is a long lasting debate about the authenticity of the poems, since some historians believe MacPherson wrote them himself, whilst Irish historians hold that Ossian has its roots in Irish myths, not Scottish. Despite the debate, The Poems of Ossian achieved international success and have been compared with Homer's Iliad, inspiring many later writers such as Walter Scott and Goethe. |
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UK |
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Luath Press Ltd |
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