In 1760 James Macpherson published these short prose poems as translations from the Gaelic of the Scottish Highlands: laments of warriors and their lovers, heroes fallen in battle, and the voice of the bard among mist and hills. They became the basis of his Ossian epics, which he largely invented, and this reprint’s introduction explains both their sources and the controversy.
The small book that helped set off European Romanticism, whatever its authenticity. Download the free EPUB.