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James Macpherson ( Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic.
James Macpherson (born October 27, 1736, Ruthven, Inverness, Scotland—died February 17, 1796, Belville, Inverness) was a Scottish poet whose initiation of the Ossianic controversy has obscured his genuine contributions to Gaelic studies.
James Macpherson was a Scottish poet, writer, and translator best known for his Ossianic cycle of epic poems. Presented as translations of ancient Gaelic manuscripts, these poems sparked debate regarding their authenticity that continues to this day.
James Macpherson (b. 1736–d. 1796) was a poet, historian, and controversialist most famous for The Poems of Ossian, his supposed translations from the works of the 3rd-century CE Celtic poet Ossian.
James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas Mac a' Phearsain) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of epic poems. It was in 1761 that Macpherson claimed to have found an epic on the subject of the hero Fingal, written by Ossian.
the story of James Macpherson’s epoch-making mid-eighteenth-century edition of the traditional poems associated with the legendary bard Ossian. The text was swiftly translated into most of the major European languages and enjoyed an immense influence. Macpherson’s extensive editorial apparatus contains the earliest and most influential reasoned
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May 18, 2018 · MacPherson, James (1738–93). Man of letters, and the moving force behind the discovery of the Poems of Ossian. Taken up by the Edinburgh literati in 1760 as a Gaelic speaker with a taste for bardic verse, he was sent to the Highlands to search for more substantial works.
This is the first book-length study of James Macpherson (1736-1796) that considers him as an historian. From his early poetry, to the Ossianic Collections, his ...
James Macpherson was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems. He was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation. Macpherson was born at Ruthven in the parish of Kingussie in Badenoch, Inverness-shire.
James Macpherson (1736—1796) writer Quick Reference (1736–1796) Scottish poet and translator. The Highlander (1758) PoetryFragments of Ancient Poetry (1760) PoetryFingal (1762) PoetryTemora (1763) PoetryThe Works of Ossian (1765) Poetry. The Highlander (1758) Poetry.
