Since its publication,there have been disputes over The Poems of Ossian composed in English by James Macpherson,the most renowned Scottish poet in the 18th century,regarding whether the work is original,translated,or re-created.His contemporaries like Samuel Johnson,David Hume and Hugh Blair expressed respective opinions out of their own literary taste and cultural concerns.The Poems of Ossian with its disputes actually makes itself an important cultural and literary event for Scotland in the Union to develop renewed sense of community imagination,identity reconstruction,and Scottish literature's distinctive status,concerning such critical issues as literary nationality and cultural construction which greatly puzzled Scotland at the time.In addition,The Poems of Ossian's popularity in Europe,not much influenced by the disputes in Britain,is co-examined in relation to Macpherson's view and use of the Highlands'vernacular literature to further the analysis of the disputes.
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