FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. CONTENTS iii
3. INTRODUCTION: The Ossianic Poems of James Macpherson v
4. Notes to Introduction xix
5. ABOUT THIS EDITION xxii
6. FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY 1
7. PREFACE (to 1st edition of Fingal 1761/62) 35
8. THE WORKS OF OSSIAN
9. TO THE EARL of BUTE Knight of the most Noble Order of the Garter, &c. &c 39
10. A DISSERTATION CONCERNING THE ANTIQUITY, &c. of the POEMS OF OSSIAN the Son of FINGAL 43
11. Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books 53
12. COMALA: A DRAMATIC POEM 105
13. THE WAR of CAROS: A POEM 110
14. THE WAR of INIS-THONA : A POEM 115
15. THE BATTLE of LORA: A POEM 119
16. CONLATH and CUTHÓNA: A POEM 124
17. CARTHON: A POEM 127
18. THE DEATH of CUCHULLIN: A POEM 135
19. DAR-THULA: A POEM 140
20. TEMORA: AN EPIC POEM 148
21. CARRIC-THURA A POEM 158
22. THE SONGS of SELMA 166
23. CALTHON and COLMAL: A POEM 171
24. LATHMON: A POEM 176
25. OITHÓNA: A POEM 183
26. CROMA: A POEM 187
27. BERRATHON: A POEM 193
28. Advertisement 201
29. THE WORKS OF OSSIAN, THE SON of FINGAL
30. A DISSERTATION 203
31. Temora: An Epic Poem in Eight Books 225
32. CATHLIN of CLUTHA: A POEM 293
33. SUL-MALLA O F LUMON: A POEM 299
34. CATH-LODA: A POEM. DUAN FIRST 305
35. OIN A-MORÜL A POEM 321
36. COLN A-DON A A POEM 325
37. A SPECIMEN OF THE ORIGINAL OF TEMORA. BOOK SEVENTH. 329
38. PREFACE to The Poems of Ossian (1773) 409
39. Secondary sources cited in editorial notes 414
40. NOTES 415
41. INDEX and REGISTER of names used by Macpherson in text and notes 553