FTP, identify this fictional poet that was passed off as a real dude by James Macpherson.
In Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Werther and Lotte have a mock- erudite discussion about the merits of this poet. His lines moved Thomas Gray to write, "Imagination dwelt many hundred years ago in all her pomp on the cold and barren mountains of Scotland." Thought to have lived around the 3rd century CE, he is the legendary son of Fionn mac Cumhail, which means he probably didn't write the poems ascribed to him by another Scottish poet. FTP, identify this fictional poet that was passed off as a real dude by James Macpherson.
In Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Werther and Lotte have a mock- erudite discussion about the merits of this poet.
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