International Companion to James Macpherson and The Poems of Ossian 1st Edition by Dafydd Moore ISBN 1908980192 9781908980199

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ISBN 10: 1908980192

ISBN 13: 978-1908980199

Author:  Dafydd Moore 

International Companion to James Macpherson and The Poems of Ossian 1st Edition: James Macpherson’s “Poems of Ossian”, first published from 1760 as Fragments of Ancient Poetry, were the literary sensation of the age. Attacked by Samuel Johnson and others as “forgeries”, nonetheless the poems enthralled readers around the world, attracting rapturous admiration from figures as diverse as Goethe, Diderot, Jefferson, Bonaparte and Mendelssohn. This International Companion examines the social, political and philosophical context of the poems, their disputed origins, their impact on world literature, and the various critical afterlives of Macpherson and of his literary works.

International Companion to James Macpherson and The Poems of Ossian 1st Edition Table of contents:

Introduction

1. The Correspondence of James Macpherson
2. Ossian and the Gaelic World
3. Ossian and the State of Translation in the Scottish Enlightenment
4. Nostalgic Ossian and the Transcreation of the Scottish Nation
5. Landscape and the Sense of Place in The Poems of Ossian
6. Ossian’s Impact on the Discovery of Ancient Scandinavian Literature
7. The Significance of James Macpherson’s Ossian for Visual Artists
8. Macpherson’s Iliad and the Logic of Literary Primitivism
9. Principles, Prejudices, and the Politics of James Macpherson’s Historical Writing

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