Lenz’s translation of the last four books of Fingal; for the first two cf. Iris, Vols. 3 and 4, 1775.—A reprint of the six volumes appeared in Düsseldorf and Berlin, 1775–6.—For a criticism of the translation cf. Zeitsch. für vergl. Litteraturgesch., infra, 1896.
Review: Anhang zu dem 25. bis 36. Bande der allg. deutschen Bibl., 6. Abth., p. 3425 (1780).
Litteratur der Poesie von Christian Heinrich Schmid. Erster Theil. Leipzig. pp. 295–303: Article on Ossian. Cp. Theorie der Poesie, 1767, Zusäzze, 1769.
Deutsches Museum. Leipzig. pp. 62–6: Fingals Höle. Mit einem Kupferstich.
A description of Fingal’s Cave, not an Ossianic poem, as Nicolai, Herrigs Archiv, Vol. 58, p. 155 (1877), would lead us to suspect.
Ibid., pp. 763–9: Hellebeck, Eine Seeländische Gegend. An E.F. ... v. S. ... und seine Emilia. Von Friedrich Leopold Grafen zu Stolberg.
Friedrich Stolberg (1750–1819) was strongly influenced by Ossian and not a few of his poems show traces of this influence. This particular poem has been included here, because the dependence upon Ossian is striking. On pp. 764–6 he relates the story of Fingal’s courtship of Agandecca and the latter’s death (Fingal, Bk. iii, p. 236, l. 6–p. 238, l. 5), like the remainder of the poem in hexameters.—Cp. Gedichte, 1779.
1776–7. Litterarische Monate. Ein Journal von einer Gesellschaft zu Wien. Erster Band. [Oct. 1776 to Jan. 1777.] Wien.
The Journal was written under the guidance of Denis, and contains numerous bardic songs in the Ossian–Denis style.
1777. Works of Ossian. 4 vols. Francfort and Leipzig.