James Macpherson
British writer, poet, translator and politician (1736-1796) · United Kingdom · Writers · Died at 59
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Something wrong?James Macpherson 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.
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United Kingdom
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Lived 1736 to 1796 · aged 59
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