NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Macpherson, James, 1736-1796 NRA: Macpherson James (1736-1796) Author MP DNB: Macpherson, James (1736-1796), writer LBT ID: JaMacph1796 VIAF ID: 100201047 LOC ID: n50042738 | B/BAP: 1736-10-27 DIED: 1796-02-17 |
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Scottish poet who attributed his adaptations of Gaelic poetry to the blind bard Ossian;
author of the prose epics Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763). | |
REFERENCES TO James Macpherson: John Ramsay of Ochtertyre to Walter Scott, 30 November 1796 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 1 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 26 May 1805 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 1 Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [September 1806] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Lord Byron to John Becher, 28 March 1808 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1:
¶ 2 George Canning to Walter Scott, 13 November 1809 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1:
¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Letter to the Right Hon. Lord Byron (Edinburgh: William Wright, 1821) Found 1:
¶ 21 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.;
with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch. II. 1752-1761 Found 1:
¶ n2 Galt, John, 1779-1839, The Life of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1830) Chapter II Found 1:
¶ 11 Chapter VI Found 1:
¶ 8 Thomas Babington Macaulay, “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Edinburgh Review 53 (June 1831) 544-572 Found 1:
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