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By Thomas M. Curley

ISBN-10: 0521407478

ISBN-13: 9780521407472

ISBN-10: 1107425530

ISBN-13: 9781107425538

James Macpherson's recognized hoax, publishing his personal poems because the writings of the traditional Scots bard Ossian within the 1760s, is still attention-grabbing to students because the so much winning literary fraud in background. This examine provides the fullest research of his deception thus far, via taking a look at the debate from the perspective of Samuel Johnson. Johnson's dispute with Macpherson used to be a controversy with vast implications not just for literature, yet for the rising nationwide identities of the British countries throughout the Celtic revival. Thomas M. Curley bargains a wealth of surely new details, detailing as by no means sooner than Johnson's involvement within the Ossian controversy, his insistence on truth-telling, and his interplay with others within the debate. The appendix reproduces a unprecedented pamphlet opposed to Ossian written with the help of Johnson himself. This booklet could be a tremendous addition to wisdom approximately either the Ossian controversy and Samuel Johnson.

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