These Ossianic poems in fact may be seen as the foundational texts for a new movement to reclaim an ancient Celtic civilization. |
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Many writers were influenced by the works, including Walter Scott, and painters and composers chose Ossianic subjects. |
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It also contains secondary material relating to Ossianic poetry and the Ossian controversy. |
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Based partly on the Border ballad 'Gilpin Horner', Scott's poem is on the whole a medievalising concoction set in an Ossianic zone of lastness, fading and death. |
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Girodet's wash drawings inspired by Ossianic themes reappeared in 1971 when the Musee de Montargis acquired eight of them from the artist's heirs, the Becquerel family. |
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