The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry 2

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The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry 2
John Veitch
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An' whan the wee flow'rets begin then to blaw.
The laverock, the peasweep, and skirlin' pick- maw.
Shall hiss the bleak winter to Lapland awa', Then we'll ply the blythe hours at the sowin' o't." With the close of the century there came an influence into poetry in Scotland, and England Digitized by Google JAMES MACPHERSON. 117 as well, which, both in its freshness and its fulness, was new to the literature of Europe.
This arose through the work of James Mac- pherson (1738-1796), when he revived
... or con- structed out of previous materials the Ossianic poems. I do not propose to enter into this controversy. It seems to me that these poems are not in their entireness the work of one man, far less of Macpherson, whose capacity is open to test, in the light of his accredited produc- tions in poetry and prose. That Macpherson is not the author of * Ossian ' is proved simply by the fact that he could not have written it.
That he worked up into form and a certain coherency of arrangement fragments already in existence, some of them very old, seems to me to be the probable theory of the Ossianic poems.


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