Macpherson, James

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Scottish writer. He published Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland in 1760, followed by the epics Fingal in 1761 and Temora in 1763, which he claimed as the work of the 3rd-century bard Ossian. After his death they were shown largely, but not entirely, to be forgeries.

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