The Poems of Ossian and Related Works by Howard Gaskill

includes major variant readings along with Macphersons notes and those of the present editor, as well as Macphersons Prefaces, Advertisements, and Dissertations also Hugh Blairs Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, which threw the weight of the Scottish enlightenment behind Macphersons fraud.]

Howard Gaskill, ed., The Poems of Ossian and Related Works, introduced by Fiona Stafford (Edinburgh UP 1996), xxvi, 573pp.

Poems of Ossian (Edinburgh: John Grant 1926)

Critical Dissertations on the Antient Caledonians (q.d.).

Poems of Ossian in the Original Gaelic, Vol.

The Poems of Ossian with notes by Malcolm Laing, Vol.

The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, carefully corrected and greatly improved (Philadelphia: Thomas Lang 1790).

The Poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal, Translated by James Macpherson (Edinburgh: J.

The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, in Two Volumes translated from the Galic language by James McPherson, to which is subjoined ∼ritical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian by Hugh Blair, DD (London 1765).Tempora: An Ancient Epic Poem, in Eight Books together with several other Poems, composed by Ossian, the son of Fingal translated from the Galic language by James MacPherson (London: T.The Second Edition (London: Printed for T.

, as Fingal, An Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books: Ossian the Son of Fingal Translated from the Galic Language, By James Macpherson.

Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books together with several other Poems, composed by Ossian, the son of Fingal translated from the Galic language by James MacPherson (London: T.Ossian: Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland and translated from the Galic or Erse Language by James Macpherson (Edinburgh: G.of his married Sir Charles Brewster, the optical scientist and inventor of kaleidoscopes David Humes critique of Macpherson, based on external evidence, appeared in 1843 as ∾ssay on the Authenticity of Ossians Poems. The epigraph of his poem, They went forth to war but they always fell [Ossians Cath-loda, duan ii), quoted as an epigraph by Matthew Arnold for his Lectures on Celtic Literature, and widely accepted as a summary of Irish belligerency and fated revolutionary failure Matthew Arnold spoke of the vein of piercing regret and sadness of his epics, remarking what an apparition of newness and power such a strain must have been to the 18th century a dg.

The Poems of Ossian and Related Works by Howard Gaskill