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Scottish Poet James Macpherson was born #OTD in 1736. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered & translated from Gaelic. The authenticity of Ossian was supported by Hugh Blair, looked on with skepticism by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, admired with doubt by the English poet Thomas Gray, & denied by the panjandrum of English letters, Samuel Johnson. None of the critics knew Gaelic.
James Macpherson at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2675#books #poetry
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