NC1392/268

Letter from Richard How to John Pitts. Reference to situation in Holland, Jean Hennuyer, Fox, and to writings by Hugh Blair and Macpherson.

11 Apr 1793

From: 1793 To: 1793

Note: In 1763 Hugh Blair published A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian, the authenticity of which he maintained. Blair serves as the voice of authority on the legitimacy of the poems that he himself had urged friend James Macpherson to publish in Fragment of Ancient Poetry. The dissertation directly opposes assertions that the poems Macpherson claimed to be ancient and sublime were in fact written by several modern poets, or possibly even by Macpherson himself.

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How, Richard,
Pitts, John,
Blair, Hugh,
Macpherson, James,
Fox

personal correspondence, doctrine, Holland