1. William Knight, ed., Letters of the Wordsworth Family, 3 vols. (New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1969), 334.

2. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poetry and Prose, ed. Kenneth Neil Cameron (New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1969), 134.

3. A. Kent Hieatt, introduction to Beowulf and Other English Poems, ed. and trans. Constance B. Hieatt (New York: Odyssey Press, 1967), 2.

4. Ibid.

5. John Wain, Samuel Johnson (New York: Viking Press, 1974), 237.

6. Michael Stapleton, The Cambridge Guide to English Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), 686.

7. Wain, Samuel Johnson, 201.

8. Ibid.

9. Stapleton, Cambridge Guide, 905.

10. Ernest Bernbaum, Guide through the Romantic Movement (New York: Ronald Press, 1949), 156–57.

11. Albert C. Baugh et. al., A Literary History of England (New York: Appleton, Century, and Crofts, 1948), 1019.

12. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, in The Portable Johnson and Boswell, ed. Louis Cronenburger (New York: Viking Press, 1947), 240.

13. William Wordsworth, The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, ed. Ernest D. Selincourt, rev. Helen Darbishire, 5 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1952–59), 2:236.

14. Baugh et. al., Literary History, 1019.

15. Stapleton, Cambridge Guide, 552.

16. Hugh Blair, “A Critical Dissertation on the Poems of Ossian,” in The Poems of Ossian, trans. James Macpherson (Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1847), 54.

17. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., s.v. “Macpherson, James.”

18. W. P. Ker, “The Literary Influence of the Middle Ages,” in The Cambridge History of English Literature, ed. A. W. Ward and A. R. Waller, 15 vols. (New York: MacMillan Co., 1939), 10:245–73.

19. Frederic I. Carpenter, “The Vogue of Ossian in America: A Study in Taste,” American Literature 2 (January 1931): 405–7.

20. Ibid., 411.

21. Ibid., 412.

22. Boswell, Samuel Johnson, 93.

23. Ibid., 193.

24. Bernbaum, Romantic Movement, 20.

25. John Robert Moore, “Wordsworth’s Unacknowledged Debt to Mcpherson’s Ossian,” PMLA 40 (June 1925): 363.

26. Ker, “Literary Influence,” 261.

27. Boswell, Samuel Johnson. 192.

28. Edward D. Snyder, The Celtic Revival in English Literature: 1760–1800 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1923), 82–84.

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