Imitating a forgery
10th December 2014
James Macpherson (1736–1796) has been called ‘in literary and cultural terms perhaps the most influential of all forgers … Rare among educated Scots of his era in his familiarity with the Gaelic language and its still primarily oral tradition, he drew largely on both in his early poetry (The Highlander, 1758), which brought him little […]
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