James Macpherson
Who is James Macpherson
James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector and politician, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of epic poems.
Early life and education
Macpherson was born at Ruthven in the parish of Kingussie in Badenoch, Inverness-shire. This was a Scottish Gaelic-speaking area but near the Barracks of the British Army, established in 1719 to enforce Whig rule from London after the Jacobite uprising of 1715. Macpherson's uncle, Ewen Macpherson joined the Jacobite army in the 1745 march south, when Macpherson was nine years old and after the Battle of Culloden, had had to remain in hiding for nine years. In the 1752-3 session, Macpherson was sent to King's...
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James Macpherson Poems
- Fragments Of Ancient Poetry, Fragment Vi
Son of the noble Fingal, Oscian,
Prince of men! what tears run down
the cheeks of age? what shades thy
mighty soul?
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- Fragments Of Ancient Poetry, Fragment Ix
Thou askest, fair daughter of the
isles! whose memory is preserved
in these tombs? The memory of Ronnan
the bold, and Connan the chief of
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- Fragments Of Ancient Poetry, Fragment Ii
I sit by the mossy fountain; on the
top of the hill of winds. One tree is
rustling above me. Dark waves roll
over the heath. The lake is troubled
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- Fragments Of Ancient Poetry, Fragment X
It is night; and I am alone, forlorn
on the hill of storms. The wind is
heard in the mountain. The torrent
shrieks down the rock. No hut receives
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- Fragments Of Ancient Poetry, Fragment Xiii
[Footnote: This is the opening of the epic poem mentioned in the preface. The two following fragments are parts of some episodes of the same work.]
Cuchlaid sat by the wall; by the
tree of the rustling leaf.
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Comments about James Macpherson
- Linusminimax: "the author of the ossian poems was james macpherson...
no other scholar... ever came across anything resembling the ossianic tradition.
... in his will macpherson left 500 £ for a monument to himself... his request to be buried in westminster abbey also was granted."
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- Kevdaly: james macpherson had a bit in common with geoffrey of monmouth when you think of it.
- Standplaats_krk: so james macpherson is a vile piece of disingenous shit, is that right?
- Skynewsaust: sky news host james macpherson says there’s a “cultural-wide madness” and the roots of it go back to a “rejection of objective truth”.
- Austconserva: a ‘rejection of objective truth’ in society..
sky news host james macpherson says there’s a “cultural-wide madness” and the roots of it go back to a “rejection of objective truth”...
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