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The Farthest Hebrides

RECORDING by Beecham of Mendelssohn’s "Fingal’s Cave," heard from 3YA on Sunday, reminds one of the odd career of the Hebrides island group in the European imagination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. I suppose it began with Macpherson’s "Ossian," the famous forgery which so early foreshadowed everything worst in later Celtic literature. At all events, Wordsworth, Keats, Poe, and doubtless many others restored the Hebrides to their ancient position in Ultima Thule, the island at the edge of the world; they became a symbol of the delightfully remote and mistyFingal’s Cave being an exception in its precision and clarity-about which everyone could write without having to go there. They remain to this day, of course, singularly little known; Hebridean sailors have been seen*in Christchurch, speaking a brand of English which perplexed

the Saxon; but the modern mind is at least less addicted to the love of the foggy and it may be hoped that the revival of Scotland that some people envisage will include these islands which once excited a Europe conscious of its own ignorance.

This article text was automatically generated and may include errors. View the full page to see article in its original form.I whakaputaina aunoatia ēnei kuputuhi tuhinga, e kitea ai pea ētahi hapa i roto. Tirohia te whārangi katoa kia kitea te āhuatanga taketake o te tuhinga.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 8

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The Farthest Hebrides New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 8

The Farthest Hebrides New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 309, 25 May 1945, Page 8

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