Fragments Of Ancient Poetry

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Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and transla By James Macpherson Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic or Erse language Macpherson, James, 1736-1796. 70p.; 8. Edinburgh:: printed for G. Hamilton and J. Balfour, 1760. Note: In fact by James Macpherson. Note: Reproduction of original from the British Library. Note: English Short Title Catalog, ESTCT83707. Note: Electronic data. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale, 2003. Page image (PNG). Digitized image of the microfilm version produced in Woodbridge, CT by Research Publications, 1982-2002 (later known as Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of the Gale Group). We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Excerpt from Fragments of Ancient Poetry, Collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and Translated From the Gaelic or Erse Language, 1760: Being a Reprint of the First Ossianic Publication of James Macpherson There can be no doubt that these Poems are to be ascribed to the Bards, a race of men well known to have continued through many ages in Ireland and the north of Scotland. Every chief or great man had in his family a Bard or Poet, whose office it was to record in verse the illustrious actions of that family. By the succession of these Bards, such Poems were handed down from race to race; some in manuscript but more by oral tradition, and tradition, in a country so free of intermixture with foreigners, and among a people so strongly attached to the memory of their ancestors, has pre served many of them, in a great measure, uncorrupted to this day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.