wortels engeland

ossianisme - fingal 1762


mc pherson
zogezegd oraal schots gaelic
ossian is bard in schotse hooglanden
zelfs toen betrapt nog steeds in vereerd

Samuel Johnson, English author, critic, and biographer, was convinced that Macpherson was "a mountebank, a liar, and a fraud, and that the poems were forgeries".^[13] Johnson also dismissed the poems' quality. Upon being asked, "But Doctor Johnson, do you really believe that any man today could write such poetry?" he famously replied, "Yes. Many men. Many women. And many children."

invloed op walter scott, waverly, ivanhoe en de historische roman; schotse hooglanden