| John M'Pherson - 1873 - 20 pages
...prevailed iipon to undertake the duty of translation, and several pieces were published in the year 1760, under the title " Fragments of Ancient Poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland." These " Fragments " having obtained much public favour, Macpherson was prevailed upon, by Dr Blair... | |
| John Stuart Blackie - Civilization, Celtic, in literature - 1876 - 356 pages
...crystallise round the plain of Troy and the rock of Ithaca ; if only the Pisistratus, then he must he content with the lesser praise of having collected...the Edinburgh literary circle, who, with hopeful 1 Macpherson's first literary publication, The Highlander, a Poem in Six Cantos, was published in the... | |
| Thomas Bailey Saunders - Bards and bardism in literature - 1894 - 350 pages
...of some sixteen pieces- In June^ l76QJbhese were published at " ~ Edinburgh in a small thin volume, under the title Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland and translated from the Galic or Erse Language. Blair superintended their production ; and, as the... | |
| Irma Elizabeth Voigt - 1913 - 166 pages
...upon him, and Macpherson translated some sixteen pieces. These were published in Edinburgh in 1760 under the title Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland and translated from the Gaelic or Erse Language. Blair wrote the preface. The book was immediately... | |
| R. R. Agrawal - Art - 1990 - 316 pages
...together to bring Celtic poetry into public light."6 The publication of his Ossianic poems in 1760 under the title, Fragments of Ancient Poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Gaelic or Erse Language, was one of the most important literary events of the... | |
| Rhetoric Society of America. Conference - Language and culture - 1995 - 212 pages
...that he claimed to have collected in the Highlands and translated. These were published in Edinburgh under the title Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland and translated from the Gaelic or Erse Language. The volume included a preface by Blair (78-79), and... | |
| Bernhard Maier - Social Science - 1997 - 718 pages
...and Belles Lettres at Edinburgh University, and on his initiative they were published in July 1760 under the title Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland. The encouraging reception accorded to this book prompted M., after journeys in the Highlands, to publish... | |
| Oliver Davies, Thomas O'Loughlin - Literary Collections - 1999 - 580 pages
...countries themselves. In 1760 James Macpherson published a collection of his own compositions with the title Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and Translated from the Gaelic or Erse Language. These poems, attributed to the Gaelic bard Ossian,... | |
| Anthony Pym - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 250 pages
...anterior distributions are imaginary (cf. Toury 1995:40-52). When, for instance, a text was published with the title Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and Translated from the Gaelic or Erse Language (1760), the moments of distribution ("collected in... | |
| Germans - 1914 - 370 pages
...upon him, and Macpherson translated some sixteen pieces. These were published in Edinburgh in 1760 under the title Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland and translated from the Gaelic or Erse Language. Blair wrote the preface. The book was immediately... | |
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