James Macpherson and the Ossian Poems
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James Macpherson, 1736-1796.
The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Galic language by James Macpherson .... The third edition. London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt ..., 1765.
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/forgery/ossian.htm

Sunday, 22nd July 2007, 5.05pm, Radio Scotland
James
MacPherson’s romantic retelling of the tales of Ossian was the literary
toast of Europe, and in the inevitable critical backlash that followed,
it was also derided as fake Celtic culture. As John Purser discovers,
the truth is somewhere in the middle.

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