Maybe he made it up
Terry Eagleton: Faking It, 6 June 2002
The Forger’s Shadow: How Forgery Changed the Course of Literature
by Nick Groom.
Picador, 351 pp., £20, April 2002,9780330374323 Show More
by Nick Groom.
Picador, 351 pp., £20, April 2002,
“... producing literary texts cunningly modelled on the work of some well-known author like Tennyson or Thomas Moore, which they then coolly claimed to be the lost original that the author had plagiarised. Maginn, who founded Fraser’s Magazine and died an alcoholic pauper, is said to have been familiar with Hebrew, Syriac, Sanskrit, Basque, Turkish, Assyrian and ... ”