<P> The "poetry and bardic vision" of Edward Williams (1747 - 1826), better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg, bear the hallmarks of Romanticism . "His Romantic image of Wales and its past had a far - reaching effect on the way in which the Welsh envisaged their own national identity during the nineteenth century". </P> <P> (See: Damian Walford Davies and Lynda Pratt, eds., Wales and the Romantic Imagination (University of Wales Press, 2007), James Prothero . Wordsworth and Welsh Romanticism . Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013 . and Shawna Lichtenwalner, Claiming Cambria: Invoking the Welsh in the Romantic Era (University of Delaware Press, 2008). </P> <P> See Romanticism in Scotland </P> <P> James Macpherson was the first Scottish poet to gain an international reputation . Claiming to have found poetry written by the ancient bard Ossian, he published "translations" that acquired international popularity, being proclaimed as a Celtic equivalent of the Classical epics . Fingal, written in 1762, was speedily translated into many European languages, and its appreciation of natural beauty and treatment of the ancient legend have been credited, more than any single work, with bringing about the Romantic movement in European, and especially in German literature, through its influence on Johann Gottfried von Herder and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . It was also popularised in France by figures that included Napoleon . Eventually it became clear that the poems were not direct translations from the Gaelic, but flowery adaptations made to suit the aesthetic expectations of his audience . Both Robert Burns (1759--96) and Walter Scott (1771--1832) were highly influenced by the Ossian cycle . Robert Burns (1759--1796) was a pioneer of the Romantic movement, and after his death he became a cultural icon in Scotland . As well as writing poems, Burns also collected folk songs from across Scotland, often revising or adapting them . His Poems, chiefly in the Scottish Dialect was published in 1786 . Among poems and songs of Burns that remain well known across the world are, "Auld Lang Syne"; "A Red, Red Rose"; "A Man's A Man for A' That"; "To a Louse"; "To a Mouse"; "The Battle of Sherramuir"; "Tam o' Shanter" and "Ae Fond Kiss". </P>

Who is called the precursor of romantic poetry