… , responsible for the invention of the very name … of “invention,” the figure of Ossian in the
Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands that were made famous by James Macpherson in the …

… The text most relevant to Ossian was the deist John Toland’s 1726 history of the druids, in
which Toland both satirized the … In the preface to Fragments Blair inaugurates the Ossian …

… Ossian has not only preserved the history of the first migration of the Caledonians into Ireland,
… shewn how superior the probability of Ossian’s tradi tions40 is to the undigested fictions of …

… the role that Macpherson plays in the emergence of modern British poetic voice. Macpherson's
Ossian … creativity or Scottish nationalism; the Ossian poems are the best-known instance …

… The true importance of Macpherson's Ossian in literary history has been obscured by the …
This may also affect our assessment of the fact that Macpherson's Ossian is the harbinger of …

… The introductory essay considers the development of Ossian criticism from the late twentieth
… At the time of the publication of The Poems of Ossian there had been no new edition of …

… the view of the Nordic past or shaped reactions to it. Ossian could animate the nostalgia of
Denis for the … , Blicher saw the same virtues celebrated in Ossian and in the Icelandic sagas. …

… considering one of the most heated debates about authorship in the history of … : the controversy
concerning the poems of Ossian. This chapter seeks to examine the controversy from the …

… 1765 as The Works of Ossian.6 By this time it had acquired a 'critical dissertation' by the Rev.
… In subsequent editions, Macpherson himself appended erudite notes on the era and on the …

… The broad outline of th episode can be sketched in brief: … of the works of a third-century
Scottish bard, Ossian the son o … Europe as the true voice o primitive poetry, doubts about the …