The Making of History: A Study of the Literary Forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton in Relation to Eighteenth-century Ideas of History and FictionThe literary forgeries of James Macpherson and Thomas Chatterton are studied within the context of the eighteenth-century debate about the validity of using literature as a historical source and history as a literary topic. |
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Page 71
... poem . The bard speaks and then commits suicide . The abyss he plummits into at the end of the poem is , symbolically , historical . Bard- ism is at an end . Edward I's intention has been fulfilled.93 The dramatic situation in The Bard ...
... poem . The bard speaks and then commits suicide . The abyss he plummits into at the end of the poem is , symbolically , historical . Bard- ism is at an end . Edward I's intention has been fulfilled.93 The dramatic situation in The Bard ...
Page 92
... poems as an authenticating device . The striking examples of this maneuver will be pointed out . Oddly , in the first short poem , " Comala , " Macpherson broke the authentic mode in favour of a " Dramatic Poem . " The piece showed ...
... poems as an authenticating device . The striking examples of this maneuver will be pointed out . Oddly , in the first short poem , " Comala , " Macpherson broke the authentic mode in favour of a " Dramatic Poem . " The piece showed ...
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... poem narrows the question into this alternative . The poem , then , either must be the genuine work of the author named , or an express forgery made for the purpose of passing to the world as that author's composition . ( Pp . 165-6 ; P ...
... poem narrows the question into this alternative . The poem , then , either must be the genuine work of the author named , or an express forgery made for the purpose of passing to the world as that author's composition . ( Pp . 165-6 ; P ...
Contents
Acknowledgments 16 | 9 |
The Literary Impetus | 46 |
The Voice of the Past | 73 |
Copyright | |
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