1769. The same, Vol. 3, containing Dr. Hugh Blair’s Critical Dissertation, pp. i–cxliv.
[Pp. 182–5: Mors Oscaris, Filii Carvthi, a translation of the Death of Oscar in Macpherson’s Notes to Temora into Latin hexameters; cp. Carmina quaedam (1794) and for German translations cf. Der Tod Oskars (1772), Deutsches Museum (1783), and Nachlese zu Sineds Liedern (1784)].—A translation of Ossian’s poems in hexameters, which appeared in 1768–9, not in 1767–9, as Gurlitt (April 9, 1802, p. 6) and others have it. An octavo edition appeared synchronously. Cp. Ossians und Sineds Lieder (1784; 1791–2). Cf. infra, pp. 120–6. To Vol. 1 a translation of Macpherson’s first dissertation was prefixed, to Vol. 2 the second.[6]
Reviews: Göttingische Anzeigen von gelehrten Sachen, 1768, ii, pp. 1281–5 (Vol. 1 only).
Staats– und Gelehrte Zeitung des Hamburgischen unpartheyischen Correspondenten, 1768, No. 202 (Vol. 1 only). At the close an anecdote in proof of the genuineness of the works of Ossian is related.
Neue Bibliothek der schönen Wissenschaften. Leipzig, Vol. 8, i, pp. 99–112 (1769): Review of Vols. 1 and 2.
Allgemeine Deutsche Bibliothek, Vol. 10, i, pp. 63–9 (1769): Review of Vol. 1; Vol. 17, ii, pp. 437–47 (1772): Review of Vols. 2 and 3. Johann Gottfried Herder is the author of these reviews, the first of which was reprinted in Herder’s Lebensbild (1846), Vol. 1, iii, 2, pp. 119–28, and in the Sämmtliche Werke, ed. Suphan, Vol. 4, pp. 320–5, and the second in the Sämmtliche Werke, ed. Suphan, Vol. 5, pp. 322–30, where the first draft without the ending is given on pp. 416–20. The Frankfurter gelehrte Anzeigen for 1772 contains a notice of Herder’s review of Vols. 2 and 3 on p. 811.
Almanach der deutschen Musen auf das Jahr 1770. Leipzig, pp. 113–4: Review of Vols. 2 and 3. In the second edition of the Almanach (Leipzig, Berlin und Frankfurt) the review is found on pp. 123–4.
Erfurtische gelehrte Zeitungen für das Jahr 1769, pp. 27–9: Review of Vol. 1; pp. 417–9: Vol. 2; pp. 713–7: Vol. 3.
M. Christian Heinrich Schmids Zusäzze zur Theorie der Poesie und Nachrichten von den besten Dichtern. Dritte Sammlung. Leipzig. pp. 218–30: Ossian.
Pp. 218–20 contain a review of the first volume of Denis’s translation, pp. 220–2 a reprint of the Episode aus dem altschottischen Gedichte Fingal, Unterhaltungen, Vol. 4, No. 1, (1767), pp. 223–5 a reprint of Derwins Thränen, ibid., No. 2, and pp. 225–30 a reprint of Armyns Klagen an Kirmor, ibid., No. 6. Cp. Theorie der Poesie, 1767, Litteratur der Poesie, 1776.