| Mary-Ann Constantine, Gerald Porter - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 288 pages
...Macpherson's mentor, Hugh Blair) was already promising larger things: Though the poems now published appear as detached pieces in this collection, there is ground to believe that most of them were originally episodes of a greater work which related to the wars of Fingal.8 The following... | |
| John T. Lynch - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 244 pages
...beginning of the Ossianic episode: as early as the Fragments, Blair wrote. "Though the poems now published appear as detached pieces in this collection, there is ground to believe that most of them were originally episodes of a greater work which related to the wars of Fingal." In particular,... | |
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