Question

In “Life Without Principle,” Henry David Thoreau quoted this poet’s line “I look down from my height on nations / And they become ashes before me.” A work attributed to this poet contains the lines “But why art thou sad… Why grows the cloud of thy soul?” Thomas Jefferson wrote that this poet was the greatest “that has ever existed.” This title poet converses with Saint Patrick in a W. B. Yeats epic poem titled for his (*) “Wanderings.” (10[1])The protagonist recites his own translation of this poet of Berrathon on visiting Lotte for the final time in Goethe’s novella The Sorrows of Young Werther. (10[1])In the 1760s, this poet was attributed with the poem Remora, one of several based on the Fenian Cycle which he narrates. For 10 points, the poem Fingal was attributed by the supposed “translator” James Macpherson (10[1])to what mythical Gaelic bard? ■END■

ANSWER: Ossian [or Oisean; or Oisín; accept James Macpherson until read; accept The Wanderings of Oisín]
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