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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.
Mar 25, 2024 · James Macpherson (born October 27, 1736, Ruthven, Inverness, Scotland—died February 17, 1796, Belville, Inverness) was a Scottish poet whose initiation of the Ossianic controversy has obscured his genuine contributions to Gaelic studies. Macpherson’s first book of poems, The Highlander (1758), was undistinguished; but after collecting ...
James MacPherson (born 18 March 1960) is a Scottish actor, best known for his role as Detective Chief Inspector Michael Jardine in the STV drama, Taggart.
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 (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 ...
James Macpherson. 1736-1796. Macpherson is remembered for one of the most spectacular literary hoaxes of all time; the epic of Ossian. He was born on 27 October 1736 at Ruthven, Badenoch, the son of a farmer. He was educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, and in 1756 he became a teacher in his native village.
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.
