Blair, Hugh

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Blair, Hugh (1718–1800), Scottish divine and professor of rhetoric in Edinburgh, is remembered for his famous sermons (5 vols, 1777–1801) and his Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres (2 vols, 1784). He was a defender of Macpherson; his Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian (1763) found that Fingal possessed ‘all the essential requisites of a true and regular epic’.

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