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Ossian is an Anglicised form of the Irish Oisín and the Scottish Gaelic Oisein. The latter names are derived from a byname constructed from the element os ("stag"). Another Anglicised form of Oisín is Osian. Ossian was one of several names popularised by the romantic works of James Macpherson (died 1796), composer of so-called Ossianic poetry. In consequence, it and other Ossianic names—such as Malvina, Minona, Orla, Oscar, and Selma—were enthusiastically adopted in Scandinavia in the nineteenth century. The specific adoption of Ossian in Denmark does not appear to have been a direct result of the works of Macpherson, however, but owes its popularity there as an import from Sweden. In this way Ossian is similar to the Ossianic names Oscar and Selma which were introduced into Denmark by Swedish immigrants. People with the name Ossian Berger (1849–1914), Swedish politician and lawyer Ossian Brown, English musician and artist Ossian D'Ambrosio (born 1970), Italian modern Druid, musician and jeweler Ossian Donner (1866–1957), Finnish industrialist, engineer, senator and diplomat Ossian B. Hart (1821–1874), tenth Governor of Florida, lawyer and Florida Supreme Court justice Ossian Everett Mills (1856–1920), founder of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity Ossian Ray (1835–1892), American politician Ossian Cole Simonds (1855–1931), American landscape designer Ossian Skiöld (1889–1961), Swedish hammer thrower Ossian Smyth, Irish Green Party politician Ossian Sweet (1895–1960), African-American physician and one of the defendants in the Sweet Trials Ossian Wuorenheimo (1845–1917), Finnish politician and member of the Senate of Finland Fictional people with the name Ossian, narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems composed by the Scottish poet James Macpherson from 1760 Oisín (also spelt Ossian in English), in Irish mythology the greatest poet of Ireland and a warrior

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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.”
— The Iliad of Homer, translated by James Macpherson (London 1773)
“Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor.”
— "Carthon"
“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.”
— "The Songs of Selma", p. 209
“"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."”
— Book III
“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.”
— William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets (1818), Lecture I: "On Poetry in General".
“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.”
— Lin Carter, Dragons, Elves, and Heroes (New York: Ballantine, 1971) p. 76.

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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.”
— The Iliad of Homer, translated by James Macpherson (London 1773)
“Sorrow, like a cloud on the sun, shades the soul of Clessammor.”
— "Carthon"
“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.”
— "The Songs of Selma", p. 209
“"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."”
— Book III
“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.”
— William Hazlitt, Lectures on the English Poets (1818), Lecture I: "On Poetry in General".
“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.”
— Lin Carter, Dragons, Elves, and Heroes (New York: Ballantine, 1971) p. 76.

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