Ossianic controversy (Registro nro. 118021)
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| LC control number | 2020778880 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PR |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | M'Pherson, John, Rev., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1837-1911 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Ossianic controversy |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
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| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
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| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2025-11-23 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Mairi, Eleni Christofaki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (National Library of Scotland) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Ossianic controversy by Rev. John M'Pherson is a literary lecture and critical essay written in the late 19th century. It probes the debate over the authenticity of the Ossianic poems attributed to the ancient bard Ossian and publicized by James Macpherson, outlining how the dispute arose and the principal arguments for and against the poems’ genuineness.<br/><br/>The lecture begins with the mid-18th-century “discovery” of Gaelic fragments and the publication of Fingal and Temora, charting their rapid European acclaim and the ensuing backlash from skeptics such as Johnson and Laing, fueled by Macpherson’s evasive handling of originals. It then reviews the core objections—claims of impossible refinement among “barbarous” Caledonians, the implausibility of centuries-long oral transmission, the absence of early manuscripts, charges of plagiarism, the poems’ silence on religion, and the failure to find exact Gaelic counterparts—and answers them with evidence of bardic and Druidic institutions, the power of oral tradition, early written witnesses like the Dean of Lismore’s book, the bard’s non-religious remit, and losses after the collapse of clanship, including the vanished Farquharson collection. The lecture rejects Irish priority and alternative authorship theories (whether Lachlan or James Macpherson), appealing to internal Gaelic style and the translator’s limited poetic gifts. It ends with a confident verdict on essential authenticity: Fingal lived and Ossian sang. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Greenock: A. Mackenzie & Co., 1873 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Ossian, active 3rd century |
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| Uncontrolled term | Macpherson, James, 1736-1796 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://digital.nls.uk/81085792">https://digital.nls.uk/81085792</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77301">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77301</a> |
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