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	James Macpherson - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Macpherson (October 27, 1736 - February 17, 1796), was a Scottish poet, known as the "translator" of the Ossianic poems.
		Macpherson is said to have challenged Johnson, who replied that he was not to be deterred from detecting what he thought a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian.
		After Macpherson's death, Malcolm Laing, in an appendix to his History of Scotland (1800), propounded the extreme view that the so-called Ossianic poems were altogether modern in origin, and that Macpherson's authorities were practically non-existent.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Macpherson (623 words)

	TheFreeBookShop.com - Library - James Macpherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Macpherson is remembered for one of the most spectacular literary hoaxes of all time; the epic of Ossian.
		Macpherson's picture of the Highlands also foreshadowed the idealised image which would be so popular in the Victorian period.
		Macpherson's refusal to divulge his sources only served to fuel a controversy which was to last for years.
	macpherson.thefreebookshop.com (533 words)

	James MacPherson - the Wild Scotchman
		James was captured, and taken to Sydney for trial, but, as Sir Frederick Pottinger, a policeman, was the only witness, and he was accidentally killed on his way to Sydney to give evidence, the charges were dropped.
		James appeared in court a couple of times, being remanded each time, and was being taken to Brisbane on the "Diamentina", when he managed to escape, by jumping over the side, and swimming ashore, even though he was in leg-irons at the time.
		James was imprisoned on a hulk in the Brisbane River, then four years later, transferred to St. Helena Island, in Moreton Bay, where he and four other men attempted to escape, but were re-captured soon afterwards.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/australia/james_macpherson.htm (1123 words)

	Significant Scots - James MacPherson
		MACPHERSON, JAMES, a literary character of celebrity, was born at Ruthven, in the county of Inverness, in the latter end of the year 1738.
		Macpherson also directed by his will, that the sum of 300 pounds should be expended in erecting a monument to his memory in some conspicuous situation at Bellville, and that his body should be carried to London and be interred in Westminster Abbey.
		The argument deduced from Macpherson’s talents, as exhibited in his original works, to show that he could not be the author of the poems in question, is plausible; but the premises on which it is founded, are by no means of so incontrovertible a nature as to give us implicit confidence in the conclusion.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/other/macpherson_james.htm (4943 words)

	University of Delaware Library: Forging a Collection
		James Macpherson was born in Ruthven, near Inverness, in Scotland, in 1736.
		Macpherson died in 1796 and, despite the controversy surrounding the Ossian poems, was buried in Westminster Abbey, not far from the grave of his harshest critic Samuel Johnson.
		Today, Macpherson's status as a forger is not disputed; however, his writing and the Ossian poems in particular are viewed as important, legitimate poetry of the period.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/forgery/ossian.htm (955 words)

	JAMES MACPHERSON - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES MACPHERSON
		Macpherson is said to have sent Johnson a challenge, to \vhich Johnson replied that he was not to be deterred from detecting what he thought a cheat by the menaces of a ruffian.
		In 1764 he was made secretary to General Johnstone at Pensacola, West Florida, and when he returned, two years later, to England, after a quarrel with Johnstone, he was allowed to retain his salary as a pension.
		McPHERSON, JAMES BIRDSEYE (1828-1864), American soldier, was born at Sandusky, Ohio, on the i4th of November 1828.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MA/MACPHERSON_JAMES.htm (1143 words)

	Individual Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James and Mary moved to Souris, Manitoba in 1882 and are listed in the 1891 and 1901 Manitoba Census for Selkirk/Brandon District, Gelenwood Subdivision, Souris.
		James was elected "councillor" for the Glenwood District in 1885.
		James died Sept 5, 1906 and "Frona" died Dec 14, 1911 in Souris, Manitoba.
	www.users.interport.net /h/e/herman/Mary3.htm (134 words)

	MacPherson's Rant (or Lament or Farewell)
		James MacPherson, it says, was born of a beautiful gipsy who at a great wedding attracted the notice of a half-intoxicated Highland gentleman.
		Macpherson was said to be the illegitimate son of a member of the family of Invereshie and a gipsy woman of great beauty.
		While under sentence of death MacPherson is said to have composed the tune of the Rant, and he is also said to have played it under the gallows, and then to have broken [his fiddle] either across his knee or over the executioner's head.
	mysongbook.de /msb/songs/m/macphers.html (1915 words)

	James Macpherson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Macpherson (October 27, 1736–February 17, 1796), was a (The dialect of English used in Scotland) Scottish (A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) poet, known as the "translator" of the (Click link for more info and facts about Ossian) Ossianic poems.
		In 1764 he was made secretary to General Johnstone at (Click link for more info and facts about Pensacola, Florida) Pensacola, Florida, and when he returned, two years later, to England, after a quarrel with Johnstone, he was allowed to retain his salary as a pension.
		After Macpherson's death, (Click link for more info and facts about Malcolm Laing) Malcolm Laing, in an appendix to his History of Scotland (1800), propounded the extreme view that the so-called Ossianic poems were altogether modern in origin, and that Macpherson's authorities were practically non-existent.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/james_macpherson.htm (790 words)

	Linley Hooper's family history - Person Page 54 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Isabella MacPherson was christened in Sep 1830, Kirkmichael.
		James MacPherson was born on 25 Apr 1826 at flhaugh, Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland.
		James MacPherson was born illegitimate b 12 Dec 1774 at Tomachlaggan, Kirkmichael, Banffshire, Scotland.
	users.bigpond.net.au /linleymh/linley-p/p54.htm (2556 words)

	James Macpherson and the Ossianic Controversy
		In 1760 a young Edinburgh schoolmaster named James Macpherson (1736-1796) published a translation of ancient Scottish verse titled Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland.
		Macpherson kept promising to produce the originals, but it wasn't until his death that scholars really got a chance to examine his sources.
		Although Macpherson is now mainly remembered as a fraud, he did help to draw attention to the ancient and disappearing oral tradition of Scottish balladry, which was real.
	www.museumofhoaxes.com /macpherson.html (295 words)

	Traditions and Identity in Scotland and Canada:: James Macpherson, Stan Rogers, Garnet Rogers
		Macpherson and the Rogers brothers turned to traditional poetry and song in their revival of the ballad; they turned to the oral roots of poetry and culture to help establish and reformulate the identity of countries whose identities were struggling to emerge.
		James Macpherson's obsession was history, and he ingeniously created a situation in which the past would be relevant and overbearing (Haywood 1983: 146).
		Macpherson's critics refused to see the remarkable and positive effect Ossian was having on Scotland and England, and instead continued to focus on the authenticity and accuracy of specific factual claims.
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	MSN Encarta - Search Results - James Macpherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Macpherson, James (1736-1796), Scottish poet and scholar, who composed the “Ossian” poems.
		James (saints), name of three saints, figures in the 1st-century Christian church.
		James (book of Bible), book of the New Testament, one of seven New Testament Epistles that are known collectively as the Catholic, or General,...
	encarta.msn.com /James_Macpherson.html (112 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| James Macpherson
		The poems were in fact written by Macpherson himself, though he never admitted the fact.
		Macpherson's own work, sometimes elegiac in tone, puts him within the far reaches of the Graveyard School.
		The writer and poet Samuel Johnson was an early and vocal critic of Macpherson's claim to have "translated" the Ossian poems; when Johnson accused him of forgery, Macpherson responded with threats of physical violence.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/macpherson.html (223 words)

	Macpherson Bibliography (Sher) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Fiona Stafford, The Sublime Savage: A Study of James Macpherson and the Poems of Ossian (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ.
		A valuable reassessment of Macpherson's encounter with history, arguing that he was a Whig not a Tory.
		Sebastian Mitchell, "James Macpherson's Ossian and the Empire of Sentiment," British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies 22 (1999): 155-71.
	www.c18.org /biblio/macpherson.html (2157 words)

	scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Born 27 October 1736, at Ruthven near Kingussie, Macpherson was the son of a farmer.
		After Macpherson's death, a committee of the Highland Society of Scotland made a thorough investigation of the whole case.
		There now seems to be little doubt that genuine fragments of ancient Gaelic poetry existed, that Macpherson did not fully realise the full worth of what he had found, and that he did add much of his own writing in order to publish sensible epic poems.
	www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=83 (491 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Jay MacPherson - Profile
		Educated at Carleton, McGill, and University of Toronto, MacPherson taught English at University of Toronto 1957-1996.
		Her most well-known collection of poetry, The Boatman (1957), a cycle of poems examining mythic patterns of fall and redmeption, was awarded the Governor General's award.
		MacPherson has also published a textbook on mythology (Four Ages of Man: The Classical Myths, 1962) and a study of romances (The Spirit of Solitude: Conventions and Continuities in Late Romance, 1982).
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/j_macpherson.htm (254 words)

	James Macpherson Article, JamesMacpherson Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Macpherson (October 27, 1736 - February 17, 1796),was a Scottish poet, known as the"translator" of the Ossianic poems.
		He was born at Ruthven in the parish of Kingussie, Inverness -shire.
		After Macpherson's death, Malcolm Laing, in an appendix to his History of Scotland (1800), propounded the extreme view thatthe so-called Ossianic poems were altogether modern in origin, and that Macpherson's authorities were practically non-existent.Much of Macpherson's matter is clearly his own, and he confounds the stories belonging to different cycles.
	www.anoca.org /he/poems/james_macpherson.html (685 words)

	Mosten Mediation Centers - W. James MacPherson
		MacPherson worked for several years in the Corporate Marketing Department of a major financial institution and, upon completion of a Bachelor of Laws degree, worked in government prior to joining CDRC.
		MacPherson is an active mediator for the US Federal Government and the Los Angeles Superior Court Mediation Panel.
		MacPherson has been active in the dispute resolution field in a number of capacities.
	www.mostenmediation.com /jmacpherson (768 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Macpherson is a Scottish actor best known for his role as Michael Jardine in the long-running Scottish police drama, Taggart, and as the voice behind the Orion audiobook recordings of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus novels.
		James, John Beatty and their band are scehduled to perform at the Brel Restaurant, Ashton Lane, Glasgow, on Saturday, June 11, at 8pm.
		James Macpherson is to be honoured by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama at its graduation ceremony on Thursday night (November 18).
	www.jamesmacpherson.com (722 words)

	SLAINTE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		James Macpherson was born in Ruthven, Badenoch on 27th October 1736 and attended both Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities before returning to his native district as a teacher.
		Reminiscences of this poetry are embedded in Macpherson's texts, and he perhaps saw himself as reconstituting epics from fragmentary remains.
		Macpherson himself took little part in the controversy after its initial exchanges, in which he clashed famously with Dr Johnson.
	www.slainte.org.uk /Scotauth/macphdsw.htm (464 words)

	Creag Dhubh No. 16
		Among the marriages is that of Lachlan Macpherson of Nuide, who became Laird of Cluny and chief of the clan in 1722, and whose eldest son, Ewan of Cluny, led the men of Badenoch in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
		James Macpherson appears now as a third cousin once removed to Allan of Blairgowrie, and the question arises as to what family obligations were responsible for bringing them together in their early boyhood.
		by J. Lauchlan Macpherson of Strathmashie, lieutenant in Cluny's Regiment in the '45, was a well-known poet and Gaelic scholar.
	www.sonasmor.net /CD16.html (12078 words)

	Poet: James Macpherson - All poems of James Macpherson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Poet: James Macpherson - All poems of James Macpherson
		James Macpherson is a Scottish actor best known for his role as Michael Jardine in the long-running Scottish police...
		James Macpherson was born in Ruthven, Badenoch on 27th October 1736 and attended...
	www.poemhunter.com /james-macpherson/poet-33432 (255 words)

	AllRefer.com - James Macpherson (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		James Macpherson, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies
		After Macpherson's death an investigating committee of scholars agreed that he had used some ancient Gaelic poems and traditions, but composed most of the supposedly ancient poetry himself.
		His prose poems, written in a loose, rhythmical style, filled with supernaturalism and melancholy, influenced powerfully the rising romantic movement in literature, especially German literature.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/MacphersJ.html (355 words)

	MACPHERSON, JAMES (1736—1796) - Online Information article about MACPHERSON, JAMES (1736—1796) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		JAMES (1736—1796), Scottish " translator " of the Ossianic poems, was See also:
		Macpherson never produced his originals, which he refused to publish on the ground of the ex-• pense.
		Life of James II., as written by himself (1775).
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /LUP_MAL/MACPHERSON_JAMES_17361796_.html (1046 words)

	Creag Dhubh No. 18
		Macpherson, before the Sheriff of Inverness, concluding for Payment of the Rents of the Petitioners, their respective Possessions, from the Time of Evan Macpherson's Attainder down till Martinmas 1751, and he accordingly obtained a Decree, not only decerning the Petitioners, and the said Mrs.
		Macpherson, but have regularly paid the Rents becoming due since Martinmas 1751, to the Factors appointed for collecting and receiving their Rents; but the Rents due preceeding Martinmas 1751, were all uplifted and discharged by the said Mrs.
		Captain Macpherson was a younger son of the head of the Macpherson clan, the Laird of Clunie, and at an early age he went to sea, becoming at the age of thirty-one, captain of a privateer, the twenty-one gun Britannia.
	www.sonasmor.net /CD18.html (12888 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		IV Perhaps Macpherson's most important innovation was to cast his work into what his contemporaries called "measured prose," and it was recognized early that this new form contributed greatly to their appeal.
		Macpherson incorporated two principal forms of parallelism in his poems: _repetition_, a pattern in which the second line nearly restates the sense of the first, and _completion_ in which the second line picks up part of the sense of the first line and adds to it.
		Macpherson's diction must have also appealed to the growing taste for poetry that was less ornate and studied.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /gutenberg/etext05/7fgap10.txt (10046 words)

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	James MacPherson Le Moire
		LE MOIRE, James MacPherson, Canadian author, born in Quebec, 24 January, 1825.
		James received his preparatory education in St. Thomas, Lower Canada, at the home of his maternal grandfather, a United Empire loyalist who fled from Philadelphia in 1783.
		In 1838 James entered the Petit seminaire de Quebec, where he remained till 1845.
	www.famousamericans.net /jamesmacphersonlemoire (426 words)

	Ossian by James Macpherson - Introduction
		When it was first published Macpherson said that it was a translation of an ancient manuscript in Scottish Gaelic which had come into his possession, and which was a copy of an original work written by Ossian.
		However, much of the work is Macpherson's own invention -- the tragic love story of Fingal and Agandecca, for example; and though "Temora" has some similarity to the Battles of Ventry and of Gabhra, the details are different.
		He is also in course of editing a work on The Reception of Ossian in Europe which is due to be published at the end of 2003 and is worth reading if you can afford it or get it from the library (it's very expensive).
	www.exclassics.com /ossian/ossintro.htm (479 words)

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