The Poems of Ossian and Related Works : : James Macpherson / / Howard Gaskill.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gaskill, Howard,
• MitwirkendeR: Stafford, Fiona,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (608 p.)

This is the first modern edition of all Macpherson's Ossianic poetry, including Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Fingal and Temora - as well as his accompanying prefaces and dissertations, and Hugh Blair's Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian. Based on the 1765 text of the Works of Ossian, major variants from the other editions are included, together with a comprehensive register of Ossianic names.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION: The Ossianic Poems of James Macpherson -- Notes to Introduction -- ABOUT THIS EDITION -- FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY -- PREFACE (to 1st edition of Fingal 1761/62) -- THE WORKS OF OSSIAN -- TO THE EARL of BUTE Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, &c. &c -- A DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE ANTIQUITY, &c. of the POEMS OF OSSIAN the Son of FINGAL -- Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books -- COMALA: A DRAMATIC POEM -- THE WAR of CAROS: A POEM -- THE WAR of INIS-THONA : A POEM -- THE BATTLE of LORA: A POEM -- CONLATH and CUTHÓNA: A POEM -- CARTHON: A POEM -- THE DEATH of CUCHULLIN: A POEM -- DAR-THULA: A POEM -- TEMORA: AN EPIC POEM -- CARRIC-THURA A POEM -- THE SONGS of SELMA -- CALTHON and COLMAL: A POEM -- LATHMON: A POEM -- OITHÓNA: A POEM -- CROMA: A POEM -- BERRATHON: A POEM -- Advertisement -- THE WORKS OF OSSIAN, THE SON of FINGAL -- A DISSERTATION -- Temora: An Epic Poem in Eight Books -- CATHLIN of CLUTHA: A POEM -- SUL-MALLA O F LUMON: A POEM -- CATH-LODA: A POEM. DUAN FIRST -- OIN A-MORÜL A POEM -- COLN A-DON A A POEM -- A SPECIMEN OF THE ORIGINAL OF TEMORA. BOOK SEVENTH. -- PREFACE to The Poems of Ossian (1773) -- Secondary sources cited in editorial notes -- NOTES -- INDEX and REGISTER of names used by Macpherson in text and notes