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,
“... contemporary Scottish writers to the work of Caribbean poets, from one master of the fragmentary, Paul Muldoon, to another, Christopher Okigbo. Scholarship has buried Macpherson. From the 18th century to recent times the only question scholars have asked has been: ‘Are the Ossianic poems a fake?’ This is a boring question, and one easily ... ”