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Ossian. Ossian (/ ˈɒʃən, ˈɒsiən /; Irish Gaelic / Scottish Gaelic: Oisean) is the narrator and purported author of a cycle of epic poems published by the Scottish poet James Macpherson, originally as Fingal (1761) and Temora (1763), [1] and later combined under the title The Poems of Ossian. Macpherson claimed to have collected word-of ...
Ossian Opera House, later known as the Knights of Columbus Hall, then “Wild Woods Event Center” and currently “Christ Our Redeemer Community Church”, is a historic building located in Ossian, Iowa, United States. The opera house "movement" was active in Iowa from about 1870 to 1930. Numerous auditoriums and halls were built in towns ...
University of Edinburgh. Literary movement. Romanticism. James Macpherson (Gaelic: Seumas MacMhuirich or Seumas Mac a' Phearsain; 27 October 1736 – 17 February 1796) was a Scottish writer, poet, literary collector, and politician. He is known for the Ossian cycle of epic poems, which he claimed to have discovered and translated from Gaelic.
Jean-François Le Sueur. Ossian, ou Les bardes (English: Ossian, or The Bards) is an opera in five acts by the French composer Jean-François Le Sueur.The libretto, by Alphonse François "Paul" Palat-Dercy and Jacques-Marie Deschamps, is based on the Ossian poems of James Macpherson (specifically the poem "Calthon and Colmal"), which had been translated into French by Pierre-Prime-Félicien Le ...
Ossian is a town in Jefferson Township, Wells County, in the U.S. state of Indiana. [2] The town was named after Ossian , the narrator of a cycle of epic poems by the Scottish poet James Macpherson . [ 4 ]
William Shaw (1749–1831) was a Scottish Gaelic scholar, writer, minister and Church of England cleric. He is known also as friend and biographer of Samuel Johnson. His 1781 paper on the Ossian controversy is still considered a good survey of critical points. [1]
Ossian, Iowa, US. Died. March 15, 1986. (1986-03-15) (aged 74) Raymond Philip Etteldorf (August 18, 1911 – March 15, 1986) was an Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Church. Etteldorf was born in the Winneshiek County, Iowa, community of Ossian. His grandfather Philipp Etteldorf was a German immigrant from the village Schwarzenborn in the Eifel ...
Ossian's shrine. An image of Ossian on an internal door in the hall of mirrors. The Hermitage was redecorated in 1783 as a shrine to the blind bard, Ossian. [3] Ossian is supposed to have lived and written his heroic verse around the 3rd century. The redecorated hall was intended to evoke features of 'shock' and 'amazement' in the viewers ...