The Poems of Ossian

by James Macpherson

Books that mention The Poems of Ossian (5)

• The Antiquary by Walter Scott: “But not the same as Macpherson's English Ossian--you're not absurd enough to say that, I hope?”
• Uncle Bernac by Arthur Conan Doyle: “This it was which he called Ossianising, because it recalled to him the wild vague dreams of the Gaelic Ossian, whose poems had always had a fascination for him.”
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “"There in my drawer," she continued, "you will find your own translation of some of the songs of Ossian. I have not yet read them, as I have still hoped to hear you recite them; but, for some time past, I have not been able to accomplish such a wish."”
• The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon: “See Appian (in Prooem.) and the uniform imagery of Ossian's Poems, which, according to every hypothesis, were composed by a native Caledonian.”
• The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott: “The Poems of Ossian had by their popularity sufficiently shown that, if writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to interfere with their success.”