Author: deGATEGNO, Paul J.
Title: James Macpherson
Description: Boston, Twayne Publishers, 1989. Hardcover. 8vo. Burgundy cloth with gilt spine lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 171pp. Frontispiece. Fine/very good. Faint jacket rubbing. Handsome, tight first edition of this volume in series editor Bertram H. Davis's "Twayne's English Authors Series." MacPherson (1736-96) was a Scottish poet and writer best remembered as supposed "translator" of epic poems by a third century bard, Ossian, that he claimed to have discovered. .

Keywords: Literary Biography


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