An Enquiry into the Authenticity of the Poems Ascribed to Ossian

William Shaw

Public domain

The Rev. William Shaw's 1781 attack on Macpherson's Ossian, which challenged Macpherson to produce the Gaelic originals and helped ignite the long authenticity controversy. An eighteenth-century polemic digitised from a British Library copy; about 69 downloads on archive.org.

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