Reading Experience Database
1450-1945

Listing for Author: James MacPherson

 

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Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1700-1799
1800-1849
[Marginalia]Samuel Taylor Coleridge James MacPhersonThe Poems of Ossian, the Son of FingalPrint: Book
1800-1849'... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen...Samuel Bamford James MacphersonOssianPrint: Book
1800-1849[Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi...Percy Bysshe Shelley James MacPhersonThe Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language by James MacPhersonPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849
Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation...Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] James MacphersonThe poems of OssianPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843: 'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did mu...Elizabeth Barrett James Macpherson (as 'Ossian')'Carthon'Print: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843: 'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been ...Hugh Stuart Boyd James Macpherson (as 'Ossian')Ossian poemsPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19 January 1843: 'Since I last...Hugh Stuart Boyd James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)Poems of DarthulaPrint: Book
1800-1849Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March 1843: 'Since I last wrote...Harriet Holmes James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)The Death of CuchullinPrint: Book
1800-1849Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843: 'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remaine...Elizabeth Barrett James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian)The Death of CuchullinPrint: Book
1850-1899'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi...Samuel Johnson James MacphersonFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1850-1899'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi...Hugh Blair James MacphersonFragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of ScotlandPrint: Book
1700-1799'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain sh...Samuel Johnson James MacPherson'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossian]Print: Book
1700-1799'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of hi...James Boswell James Macpherson[Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic LanguagePrint: Book
1700-1799'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might ...Samuel Johnson James Macpherson[Ossian poems]Print: Book

 

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