Post-Cullodenism
Robert Crawford, 3 October 1996
The Poems of Ossian and Related Works
by James Macpherson, edited by Howard Gaskill.
Edinburgh, 573 pp., £16.95, January 1996,0 7486 0707 2 Show More
by James Macpherson, edited by Howard Gaskill.
Edinburgh, 573 pp., £16.95, January 1996,
“... Ossian’; Goethe’s Werther; and Thomas Jefferson, who said that Ossian was better than Homer. It was also Ossian by way of Matthew Arnold who structured the Celtic Twilight in-Ireland and Scotland. Despite all this Macphcrson’s texts have been ignored for much of this century, partly because his translatorese verse-prose is hard to read at long ... ”