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Ossian

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Ossian

Legendary Gaelic hero and bard, claimed by both Ireland and Scotland. He is sometimes represented as the son of Finn Mac Cumhaill, in about AD 250, and as having lived to tell the tales of Finn and the Ulster heroes to St Patrick, in about 400. The publication in 1760 of James Macpherson's poems, attributed to Ossian, made Ossian's name familiar throughout Europe.

Ossian

Semi-mythical Gaelic bard whose works, allegedly translated by James Macpherson (1736–1796), influenced the early Romantic movement. Ossian's works were in fact by Macpherson, drawing on ancient sources. Franz Schubert set nine Ossian songs 1815–17.



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Very likely the reading of Ossian had something to do with my morbid anxieties.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
The Irish first of all were jealous, for they said that Ossian was an Irish poet, that the heroes of the poems were Irish, and that Macpherson was stealing their national heroes from them.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
Her movements succeeded each other with such airiness and grace that she seemed not a creature of this world but a daughter of the atmosphere, as sung in the poems of Ossian.
Adieu by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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