Ossian in Germany / Bibliography, General Survey, Ossian's Influence upon Klopstock and the Bards

by Rudolf Tombo

Versuche über die Geschichte des Menschen von Heinrich Home. Vol. 1, 2d Edition. Cf. 1st ed., 1774, and English ed., 1796.

Inamorulla, oder Ossians Grosmuth. Ein Schauspiel in fünf Aufzügen. Nach Ossian. Dessau.

A prose drama with occasional lyric passages, based upon Macpherson’s Croma and Oina–Morul. Reprinted in Vol. 272 of the Deutsche Schaubühne, Wien, and in Vol. 46 of the Theatralische Sammlung, Wien, 1793, e. g. The author is K. H. Wachsmuth; cp. Fingal in Lochlin, 1782. Goedeke, Grundriss., 2d ed, Vol. 5, p. 393, has Inamoralia. Another edition was issued at Leipzig in the year 1787.

Deutsches Museum. Leipzig. i, pp. 116–8: Die Klage Lesbana’s. Nach dem Celtischen von v. H.—i, pp. 279–81: Klage. Nach dem Celtischen. von v. H.

Two metrical imitations of an Ossianic lament by G. A. von Halem. Cp. Poesie und Prose, 1789. Reprinted in Vol. 5 (1807) of his Schriften (Münster), pp. 20–4, 11–14.

1784. Ossians und Sineds Lieder. 5 vols. Wien.

Denis’s translation of Ossian (revised with reference to the last English edition, 1773) and a collection of his own poems, most of which are contained in Die Lieder Sineds des Barden, 1772. New edition, 1791–2, e. g. Lowndes, Bibliographer’s Manual, London (Bohn), Part vi, sub Ossian, p. 1738, mentions one edition only and dates it 1799. Cf. infra, p. 135. Vol. 1 contains a translation of Macpherson’s first, Vol. 2 of his second dissertation, Vol. 3 of Dr. Blair’s. Macpherson’s, Cesarotti’s and original notes are found at the foot of the page. Vol. 4 opens with the Vorbericht von der alten vaterländischen Dichtkunst. Vol. 5 with a Gespräch von dem Werthe der Reime, with an appendix on the use of the hexameter. In the 1791–2 ed. this appendix is inserted in Vol. 4 under the title Von dem Gebrauche des Hexameters. In the latter ed. the translation is contained in the first 4 vols. and the poems of Denis in Vols. 5 and 6.

Review: Allg. deutsche Bibl., Vol. 60, ii, pp. 410–6.

Nachlese zu Sineds Liedern. Aufgesammelt und herausgegeben von Joseph von Retzer. Band 6. Wien. pp. 200–9: Mors Oscaris, Filii Caruthi. (Denis.) Der Tod Oscars. Des Sohnes Karuths. von Anton Freyh. v. Rebbach.