Ossian is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson from about 1760.

" Johnson is cited as calling the story of Ossian " as gross an imposition as ever the world was troubled with ".

In 1761 James Macpherson announced the discovery of an epic written by Ossian ( Oisín ) in the Scottish Gaelic language on the subject of " Fingal " ( Fionnghall meaning " white stranger ": it is suggested that Macpherson rendered the name as Fingal through a misapprehension of the name which in old Gaelic would appear as Finn ).

Oisin ( often Oisín and anglicized as Ossian ), is a common boy's name.

Ossian is a town in Jefferson Township, Wells County, Indiana, United States.

Ossian is located at ( 40. 880447 ,-85. 168369 ).

Ossian is still served by Indiana State Road 1, while four miles north is Interstate 469, the beltway around Fort Wayne, and also just seven miles south of Fort Wayne International Airport.

Ossian is also surrounded by agriculture, the most important piece of Indiana's economy.

Ossian ( pronounced | ˈosh-ain ) is a city in Winneshiek County, Iowa, United States.

Ossian is located at ( 43. 146498 ,-91. 763842 ).

Ossian is a town in Livingston County, New York, United States.

Ossian is a figure in Celtic mythology.

The Town of Ossian is the southernmost town in Livingston County and is in the southeast part of the county.

It is named after Carl Friedrich Gauss who was aware of a version of the theorem but never published it, and Pierre Ossian Bonnet who published a special case in 1848.

Cesarotti is best known as the translator of Homer and Ossian.

Blair is best known for the publication of three major works: A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, Son of Fingal ; Sermons ; and Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.

The Town of Portage is on the west side, and the Towns of West Sparta and Ossian are to the east.

The heir apparent is the present holder's son, Thomas Ossian Patrick Wolfe Anson, Viscount Anson ( b. 2011 ).

It is a direct generalization of the Gauss – Bonnet theorem ( named after Carl Friedrich Gauss and Pierre Ossian Bonnet ) to higher dimensions.

The Sweet Trials: Malice Aforethought is a play written by Arthur Beer, based on the trials of Ossian and Henry Sweet, and derived from Kevin Boyle's Arc of Justice.

At the same time his love of the marvellous found gratification in the wonders of the Arabian Nights, and it is further characteristically related of him that he used to carry continually in his waistcoat pocket a miniature copy of Ossian, passages from which he frequently recited with sonorous elocution and vehement gesticulation.

Glencoe is supposed to have been the birthplace of Ossian according to John Cameron ( 1822 – 1898 ), a local bard who was also Bard to the Ossianic Society.

* The Ossian cycle of ancient Celtic poetry supposedly rediscovered and published in 1760 by Scottish poet James Macpherson was actually written in the eighteenth century, possibly based on some fragments of earlier verses.

The most influential Russian version of Ossian was the 1792 translation by Ermil Kostrov, who based his work on Pierre Le Tourneur's 1777 translation from the original.

In 1761 he announced the discovery of an epic on the subject of Fingal ( related to the Irish mythological character Fionn mac Cumhaill / Finn McCool ) written by Ossian ( based on Fionn's son Oisín ), and in December he published Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language, written in the musical measured prose of which he had made use in his earlier volume.

It formed part of his Ossian cycle of poems claimed to have been based on old Scottish Gaelic poems.

Ossian, the narrator and purported author of a series of poems published by James Macpherson in the 1760s, is based on Oisín.

* My Name is Ossian Sweet: a Docu-Drama by Gordon C. Bennett, based on the Sweet family's attempt to integrate a white neighborhood in Detroit 1925, and their defense against the charge of murder by Clarence Darrow, was published ( 2011 ) at www. HeartlandPlays. com.

In 1761 he claimed to have found an epic on the subject of the hero Fingal, written by Ossian.

This led to its influence on Napoleon and Girodet's 1805 painting Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes ( see above ).

Scottish author Hugh Blair's 1763 A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian upheld the work's authenticity against Johnson's scathing criticism and from 1765 was included in every edition of Ossian to lend the work credibility.

* Selected Bibliography: James Macpherson and Ossian Excellent online bibliography ; compiled by designated experts in the field ; covering the most important scholarly monographs and articles on Ossian and Macpherson up to March 2004.

Even close friends and family were disapproving of Joyce's seemingly impenetrable text, with Joyce's brother Stanislaus " rebuk him for writing an incomprehensible night-book ", and former friend Oliver Gogarty believing the book to be a joke, pulled by Joyce on the literary community, referring to it as " the most colossal leg pull in literature since Macpherson's Ossian ".

* Hugh Blair-A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian

Ossian, which he held to be the finest of poems, he has, on the other hand, considerably improved in translation ; and the appearance of his version attracted much attention in Italy and France, and raised up many imitators of the Ossianic style.

* 1763: A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal

In 1763 Blair published A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, his first well known openly authored publication.

After the authenticity of the Ossian poems was disproved, A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian caused a decline in Blair's credibility.

Herder wrote an important essay on Shakespeare and Auszug aus einem Briefwechsel über Ossian und die Lieder alter Völker ( Extract from a correspondence about Ossian and the Songs of Ancient Peoples ) published in 1773 in a manifesto along with contributions by Goethe and Justus Möser.

* Oisín, son of Fionn mac Cumhaill: ( Macpherson's Ossian )

Oisín ( ; ), also spelt in English Ossian ( ) or Osheen, was regarded in legend as the greatest poet of Ireland, and is a warrior of the fianna in the Ossianic or Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.