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supuesto autor de un conjunto de poesía folclórica escocesa
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Join the roomOssian es el narrador y supuesto autor de un ciclo de poemas épicos publicados por el poeta escocés James Macpherson, originalmente como Fingal (1761) y Temora (1763), y luego combinados bajo el título The Poems of Ossian. Macpherson afirmó haber recopilado material transmitido oralmente en gaélico escocés, que se decía provenía de fuentes antiguas, y que la obra era su traducción de ese material. Ossian se basa en Oisín, hijo de Fionn mac Cumhaill, un bardo legendario de la mitología irlandesa. Los críticos contemporáneos estaban divididos en su opinión sobre la autenticidad de la obra, pero el consenso actual es que Macpherson compuso en gran parte los poemas él mismo, basándose en parte en la poesía gaélica tradicional que había recopilado.
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“The wrath of the son of Peleus,—O goddess of song, unfold! The deadly wrath of Achilles: To Greece the source of many woes! Which peopled the regions of death,—with shades of heroes untimely slain: While pale they lay along the shore: Torn by beasts and birds of prey: But such was the will of Jove! Begin the verse, from the source of rage,—between Achilles and the sovereign of men.”
“Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor.”
“The stream and the wind roar aloud. I hear not the voice of my love! Why delays my Salgar, why the chief of the hill, his promise? Here is the rock, and here the tree! here is the roaring stream! Thou didst promise with night to be here. Ah! whither is my Salgar gone? With thee I would fly from my father; with thee, from my brother of pride.”
“"Pleasant are the words of the song," said Cuthullin, "and lovely are the tales of other times. They are like the calm dew of the morning on the hill of roes, when the sun is faint on its side, and the lake is settled and blue in the vale."”
“Ossian is the decay and old age of poetry. He lives only in the recollection and regret of the past. There is one impression which he conveys more entirely than all other poets, namely, the sense of privation, the loss of all things.”
“One is tempted to call them works of genius; they are quite Homeric in their internal unity, purity of phrasing, clear, ringing music of language and dramatic coloring.”
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