Fragments of Ancient Poetry

by James Macpherson

EN·~1 hours·7 chapters

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7 total

FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY - By James Macpherson - The Augustan Reprint Society

1:04

INTRODUCTION

13:03

NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

0:01

FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY - Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, - and - Translated from the Galic or Erse Language

0:18

LUCAN

0:00

PREFACE

4:59

FRAGMENT

41:38

Description

Augustan Reprint Society, publication number 122

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~1 hours (58K characters)

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Project Gutenberg

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Text file produced by David Starner, Ted Garvin, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger

Release date

May 1, 2005

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8161

Subjects

Literary forgeries and mystifications -- Early works to 1800 Ossian, active 3rd century -- Poetry Mythology, Celtic -- Ireland -- Poetry Bards and bardism -- Poetry Celts -- Poetry PR

About the author

James Macpherson

1736–1796

Best remembered for bringing the poems of Ossian to a huge European audience, this Scottish writer became one of the most debated literary figures of the 18th century. His work helped shape Romantic taste even as arguments over authenticity followed him for the rest of his life.

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