Carefully corrected / mutilated mess: Ossian’s textual legacies R EBECCA B ARR & J USTIN T ONRA

Works (1765)Poems (1773)

Works (1765)Poems (1773) “gray-haired” (292)“grey-haired” (205-6) “echoing” (299)“ecchoing” (212) “like the gales of the spring, that, flying over the hill, by turns bend the feebly- whistling grass” (292) “like gales of spring, as they fly along the hill, and bend by turns the feebly- whistling grass” (206) “my ghost shall stand in the wind” (295)“my ghost shall stand in the blast” (209) “No feeble voice is on the wind” (295)“No feeble voice is on the gale” (208)

“I have made such alterations in the Passages he has excepted to, as I imagine will satisfy him. As this has occasioned a pretty long alteration in the last Paragraph, pray attend that this be correctly printed: & desire Mr. Macpherson to take the trouble to revise the last sheet for that end” (qtd. in Chapman 82).