Title: Die Gedichte Oisian’s. Aus dem Gaelischen im Sylbenmasse des Originals Von Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt. Dritter Band
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Third of three volumes in 8vo. f. [2], pp. xxxv, [1], 492. Marbled boards. Ownership inscription “S. Grubbe” on front pastedown.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">Christian Wilhelm Ahlwardt (1760-1830), </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:15.3333px;">himself dabbled in literary forgery, notably of Pindar (see Bib# 8658691), </span><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">paid Ossian the special compliment of retranslating into German the Gaelic and Latin versions of all the poems as published by Robert MacFarlan in 1807 (see Bib# 4103331/Fr# 626 in this collection). A projected fourth volume, which was to contain critical treatises including a thoroughly revised and enlarged translation of Sinclair's dissertation, and an exact translation in prose, which was to be published separately by Göschen, never appeared. Cf. "Vorrede."</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_1160008" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>