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Temora

Temora: An ancient epic poem is a work by Scottish poet and writer James Macpherson, published in March 1763 .As with Fingal in 1762, the author posed as the translator of what he asserted was an ancient Gaelic epic by the supposed Ossian, son of Fingal .It, together with other poems he had published at the same time, produced a mixed but mostly favourable response from critics.


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“Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters, from the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair?”

Temora, Book VI, p. 353
The Poems of Ossian

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