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3 unusual facts about James MacPherson


James Macpherson

Melchiore Cesarotti's Italian translation was reputedly a favourite of Napoleon.

In the autumn he set out to visit western Inverness-shire, the islands of Skye, North Uist, South Uist and Benbecula.

Oisin

James Macpherson claimed to have found old poems from Ossian (or Oisin).


Detective Inspector John Rebus

BBC Radio has also broadcast abridged readings of Ian Rankin's "Rebus" novels, including Let It Bleed read by Alexander Morton, Death Is Not the End read by Douglas Henshall and Beggar's Banquet read by James MacPherson.

Steen Steensen Blicher

Also something of an Anglophile, he translated British poetry, including Macpherson’s Ossian and novels such as Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield – once he even tried to write poetry in English.


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