[Macpherson's Ossian].

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[Macpherson's Ossian].

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"Some men of letters in their own lifetime have enjoyed a great and not altogether undeserved popularity can now only be read by specialists -- and not always by them. In this class we must I fear place James Macpherson, the translator or author of Ossican. Yet his work to say the least is of great historical importance and, I venture to say, of special interest to a Celtic society recruited largely from North Britain. With the possible exception of David Hume [Dickins adds in the margin] he is the first, but not the last, Scots man of letters to become a figure in world literature, and the only Highlander."

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Dickins, Bruce, 1889-1978

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Professor Bruce Dickins (1889-1978) matriculated at Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1909 (B.A., 1913; M.A., 1919). He served in the Second World War, becoming Captain of the Home Guard H.Q. at the Gibraltar Barracks, Leeds. He was a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Skelly Tidy (1775-1835) commanded the 3rd Battalion of the 14th Regiment at the Battle of Waterloo. From the guide to the Bruce Dickins: Correspondence on Francis...

Macpherson, James, 1736-1796

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