The Reception of Ossian in Europe
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Twenty essays by scholars, critics, and translators trace the ways James Macpherson's Ossian has been received, translated, and published in various areas of Europe. The Ossian poems caused a sensation when they appeared in the early 1760s, making a significant impression on the major Romantic poets. The essays consider both literary and non-literary forms of reception and the work of individual writers as well as national literary cultures. They are preceded by a two-century time line of translations and criticisms of Macpherson's work. The editor is an honorary fellow in German at the U. of Edinburgh. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Series editor's prefaceAbbreviations : primary Ossianic textsTimeline of Ossian's European receptionIntroduction : 'genuine poetry ... like gold'11The reception of The poems of Ossian in England and Scotland212The sublime Gael : the impact of Macpherson's Ossian on literary creativity and cultural perception in Gaelic Scotland403Ossian in Wales and Brittany674'We know all these poems' : the Irish response to Ossian915Ossian and the rise of literary historicism1096Chateaubriand's Ossian1267The reception and reworking of Ossian in Klopstock's Hermanns Schlacht1438Goethe's translation from the Gaelic Ossian1569'Menschlichschon' and 'kolossalisch' : the discursive function of Ossian in Schiller's poetry and aesthetics17610Ossian in Sweden and Swedish-speaking Finland19811Literary, artistic and political resonances of Ossian in the Czech national revival20912Ossian in Hungary22213Ossian in Poland24014Fingal in Russia25915Ossian in Italy : from Cesarotti to the theatre27416From Smith's Antiquities to Leoni's Nuovi Canti : the making of the Italian Ossianic tradition revisited30317The suggestiveness of Ossian in romantic Spain : the case of Espronceda and Garcia Gutierrez33518Ossian in Portugal35119Ossian in music37520Ossian and art : Scotland into Europe via Rome393
