> 2)
> "Mac-Homer, too, in prose or song,
> By the state-papers of Buffon,
> To deep researches led;
> A Gallo-Celtic scheme may botch,
> To prove the Ourang race were Scotch,
> Who from the Highlands fled.
> Cooper's attribution: Lord John Townshend
>
Can't help much, I'm afraid, but it seems pretty clearly directed
against Ossian-Macpherson, particularly in his role as
Homer-translator and historian. This kind of stuff proliferated in
the 1760s and '70s. Presumably Cooper didn't approve?
Howard Gaskill
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