The poems of Ossian, the son of Fingal. Translated by James Macpherson, Esq. A new edition, carefully corrected, and greatly impro
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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT087453In fact written largely by James Macpherson. With a half-title. The final leaf bears a note referring to John Smith's 'Galic antiquities' on the authenticity of Ossian's Poems. First collected in two volumes as the third edition of 'The works of OssianEdinburgh: printed for J. Robertson, 1792. viii,457, 3]p., plate; 8 Less
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  • 9.69 X 7.44 X 0.92 in
  • 454
  • Gale ECCO, Print Editions
  • May 27, 2010
  • English
  • 9781140773115
James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas Mac a' Phearsain) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of epic poems. It was in 1761 that M...
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