Chatterton ; a Biographical Study
Chatterton ; a Biographical Study
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Had he travelled on his own resources, he would Chaf. viii.
Thistle- thwaite's satire.
Indefati- gable collectors.
What tlte Parchments did contain.
Macpher- son 's labours.
«34 CHATTERTOX.
Chap. VIII.
The Ossian Poems.
Influence ascribed to tfiem Imitations of other Poets.
A romance in stone.
probably have come back empty-handed. But he must needs make some return for the money expended ; and so, in 1762, he published his " Fingal, an Epic Poem, in Six Books," and in 1763, his " Temora, an Epi...c in Eight Books," with other poems, all professedly translated from the ancient Gaelic, or Erse, into the English language.
Great was the excitement that followed. Homer himself was believed to have been outdone ; and to question the authenticity of the " Ossian Poems," as these came to be called, was, in some literary circles, even more dangerous than to challenge in the orthodox coteries of Bristol the Hutchinsonian theory of creation and the deluge.
^ When Horace Walpole, nine years after the death of Chatterton, entered on a defence of his neglect of the poet and his wonderful antiques, it seemed to the learned dilettante sufficient to say : " I then imagined, and do still, that the success of Ossian's poems had suggested the idea." What satisfied Walpole has been reechoed ever since.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Had he travelled on his own resources, he would Chaf. viii.
Thistle- thwaite's satire.
Indefati- gable collectors.
What tlte Parchments did contain.
Macpher- son 's labours.
«34 CHATTERTOX.
Chap. VIII.
The Ossian Poems.
Influence ascribed to tfiem Imitations of other Poets.
A romance in stone.
probably have come back empty-handed. But he must needs make some return for the money expended ; and so, in 1762, he published his " Fingal, an Epic Poem, in Six Books," and in 1763, his " Temora, an Epi...c in Eight Books," with other poems, all professedly translated from the ancient Gaelic, or Erse, into the English language.
Great was the excitement that followed. Homer himself was believed to have been outdone ; and to question the authenticity of the " Ossian Poems," as these came to be called, was, in some literary circles, even more dangerous than to challenge in the orthodox coteries of Bristol the Hutchinsonian theory of creation and the deluge.
^ When Horace Walpole, nine years after the death of Chatterton, entered on a defence of his neglect of the poet and his wonderful antiques, it seemed to the learned dilettante sufficient to say : " I then imagined, and do still, that the success of Ossian's poems had suggested the idea." What satisfied Walpole has been reechoed ever since.
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