Author:James Macpherson

James Macpherson
(1736–1796)

James Macpherson

Works

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry (1760)
• Fingal: an Ancient Epic Poem, in Six Books; together with several other Poems, composed by Ossian, the son of Fingal; translated from the Galic language by James Macpherson (1762) (transcription project)
• Poems of Ossian
  • The Works of Ossian, the Son of Fingal (1765) IA
  • Revised edition (1773) IA
  • The Poems of Ossian &c. Containing the Poetical Works of James Macpherson, Esq. in Prose and Rhyme with Notes and Illustrations, edited by Malcolm Laing (1805) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
  • Poems of Ossian, Translated by James Macpherson. With an Introduction, Historical and Critical, by George Eyre-Todd (1900)
• The Illiad of Homer
  • 1773 edition:
    • Volume 1 (external scan) (external scan)
    • Volume 2 (external scan) (external scan)
  • 1818 edition (transcription project)

Works about Macpherson

• "Macpherson, James (1736-1796)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Macpherson, James," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Macpherson, James," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)