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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. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic.
- Poet, translator
James Macpherson (Scottish Gaelic: Seumas Mac a' Phearsain) (October 27, 1736 – February 17, 1796) was a Scottish poet, known as the "translator" of the Ossian cycle of poems. In 1761 Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic on the subject of Fingal (related to the Irish mythological character Fionn mac Cumhaill/Finn McCool) written by ...
Sep 24, 2021 · 24 September 2021. Scottish outlaw James Macpherson hung on the “gallows-tree” in 1700 and made famous to the wider public by a Robert Burns poem has had his exhibit changed in a museum to reflect that he had a Scottish Traveller mother.
Jamie Macpherson (1675–1700) also known as James Macpherson was a Scottish outlaw, famed for his poetic work commonly called "Macpherson's Lament" said to have been composed by him on the eve of his execution. "Macpherson's Lament" is known also as "Macpherson's Rant" or "Macpherson's Farewell".
- Robber
- Robbery, Bearing arms in a market, Being Egyptian
- 1675, Scotland
- 16 November 1700 (aged 24–25), Banff, Scotland
Aug 26, 2023 · James MacPherson is the first to arrive. James, you’ll remember, was Mike Jardine, DCI Jim Taggart’s long-serving, long-suffering sidekick who eventually came to a sticky end. A few minutes ...
Dec 4, 2021 · James MacPherson: A Lasting, But Troubled, Legacy. December 04, 2021 by Deuce Richardson. “I think this rude bard of the North [Ossian] the greatest poet that has ever existed.”. Thomas Jefferson, 1773. James MacPherson in his final years. He would be buried in Westminster Abbey.
James Macpherson (b. 1736–d. 1796) was a poet, historian, and controversialist most famous for The Poems of Ossian, his supposed translations from the works of the 3rd-century CE Celtic poet Ossian.
