James Macpherson Scottish Translator of Ossianic Poems Born.

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James Macpherson Scottish translator of Ossianic poems born.

Macpherson is remembered for one of the most spectacular literary hoaxes of all time; the epic of Ossian. He was born on 27 October 1736 at Ruthven, Badenoch, the son of a farmer. He was educated at Aberdeen and Edinburgh Universities, and in 1756 he b