Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922.
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Ossian
Standard Name: Ossian
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Intertextuality and Influence | Ann Hatton | This novel is well supplied with quotations: Macpherson
's Ossian
on the title-page and Robert Blair
(The Grave) to open the first volume, with Shakespeare
and Milton
for the succeeding volumes. It opens... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Loudon | In prose the opening tale, Julia de Clifford, presents a well-meaning but thoughtless and impulsive heroine who progresses from dressing up as a ghost to scare the servants, to plunging her lover into despair... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Tynan | KT
's second poetry volume, Shamrocks (dedicated to William
and Christina Rossetti
), was said to be one of the earliest attempts to make use of Ossianic
material in Anglo-Irish poetry. Tynan, Katharine. Shamrocks. Kegan Paul, Trench, 1887. prelims Yeats, W. B. Letters to Katharine Tynan. Editor McHugh, Roger, Clonmore and Reynolds, 1953. 26-7, 29 |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Mrs Showes | This novel is far more conventional in plot than MS
's own. A heroine of mysterious origins discovers the truth about her birth, goes through many trials including threatened incest and madness, and achieves happy... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Grant | When it was printed, each of its five parts was headed with a prose Argument. In a style reminiscent of James Thomson
(whose name is invoked Grant, Anne. Poems on Various Subjects. Printed for the Author by J. Moir, 1803. 40 |
| Textual Features | Charlotte Brooke | CB
took various steps to guard against association with the project of James Macpherson
, whose Ossian
ic poems which purported to be ancient Scottish works were more fabricated than adapted. She includes in her... |
Timeline
January 1762: James Macpherson published Fingal, an Ancient...
Writing climate item
January 1762
James Macpherson
published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books., which purported to be the work of the ancient bard Ossian
.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
13 (1762): 45-53
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15 August 1773: James Macpherson dated the preface to his...
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15 August 1773
James Macpherson
dated the preface to his second and final edition of The Poems of Ossian, published this year, which brings together all his Ossian
ic writing.
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O’Brien, Karen. Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
126-30
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