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Ossianism

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Ossianism
writing in the style of Ossian and particularly writing in the epic or legendary vein which is of a recent period but which claims to belong to antiquity. [After Ossian or Oisin, an apocryphal Gaelic poet of the third century, whose supposed style was imitated in works created by James Macpherson (1736-1796).] — Ossianic, adj.
See also: Literary Style


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Byron's early Ossianism, if a touch naive, cannot be read without an awareness of Scott's involvement in the Macpherson controversy.
10) Certainly Ossianism helped to mould Zhukovsky's poetic taste.
 
 
 
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