1816 Poems of Ossian, Orrann, Ulin & Other Bards Montrose, Scotland Half Leather

Description: AN ORIGINAL COLLECTION OF THE POEMS OF OSSIAN, ORRANN, ULIN And Other Bards Who Flourished In The Same AgeBy M’CALLUM, Hugh & John (Editors). 1816 Montrose Review / James Watt (Montrose, Scotland), 5 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches tall hardcover, red cloth over blue leather spine and tips, five raised bands and gilt decorations and lettering to spine, 241, [2], 59 pp. Slight soiling and rubbing to covers, with a bit of sun fading to top edge of the cloth of the front cover. Otherwise, apart from a couple of pages with very slight marginal staining, a very good to near fine copy - clean, bright and unmarked - giving a splendid shelf appearance. Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian. Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of-mouth material in Scottish Gaelic, said to be from ancient sources, and that the work was his translation of that material. Ossian is based on Oisin, son of Fionn mac Cumhaill (anglicized to Finn McCool), a legendary bard in Irish mythology. Contemporary critics were divided in their view of the work's authenticity, but the current consensus is that Macpherson largely composed the poems himself, drawing in part on traditional Gaelic poetry he had collected.

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