Further Reading
- Barratt, Glynn R., "The Melancholy and the Wild: A Note on Macpherson's Russian Success," in Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture: Racism in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Harold E. Pagliaro, Cleveland: The Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1973, pp. 125-35. (An overview of Macpherson's popularity in Russia.)
- Bysveen, Josef, Epic Tradition and Innovation in James Macpherson's 'Fingal', Stockholm: Uppsala, 1982, 145 p. (A book-length study of the epic elements in Macpherson's poem.)
- Gaskill, Howard, "German Ossianism: A Reappraisal?" German Life and Letters XLII, No. 4 (July, 1989): 329-41. (A discussion of some of the questions left unanswered by Rudolf Tombo's Ossian in Germany.)
- Grobman, Neil R., "James Macpherson, Ossian, and the Revival of Interest in Bardic Traditions in Eighteenth-Century Scotland," Midwestern Journal of Language and Folklore VI (Spring / Fall, 1980), pp. 51-55. (An examination of both the positive and negative effects Macpherson had on the preservation of Scotland's "oral antiquities.")
- Hutchinson, T., Review of The Life and Letters of James Macpherson, by Thomas Bailey Saunders, The Academy 46, No. 1167 (September 22, 1894): 205-07. (A detailed review of the circumstances surrounding the Ossianic controversy in which the author faults Saunders for an inadequate understanding of the subject.)
- Keith, Christiana, "Second Thoughts on Ossian," Queen's Quarterly: A Canadian Review LVIII, No. 4 (Winter, 1951-52): 551-57. (A defense of Macpherson's achievement.)
- Krause, David, "The Hidden Oisin," in his The Profane Book of Irish Comedy, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982, pp. 59-104. (An examination of the distinction between Oisin, the figure in Irish folklore, and the alleged author of Macpherson's poems.)
- Malek, James S., "Eighteenth-Century British Dramatic Adaptations of Macpherson's Ossian," Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research XIV, No. 1 (May, 1975): 36-41, 52. (An exploration of Macpherson's influence on British drama.)
- Metzdorf, Robert F., "M'Nicol, Macpherson, and Johnson," in Eighteenth-Century Studies in Honor of Donald F. Hyde, edited by W.H. Bond, New York: The Grollier Club, 1970, pp. 45-61. (A discussion of the extended debate between Johnson and Macpherson, combined with an account of another Scottish foe of the English critic's, Donald M'Nicol.)
- Parnell, Arthur, "James Macpherson and the Nairne Papers," The English Historical Review XII, No. 46 (April, 1897): 254-84. (Examines Macpherson's relationship to an eighteenth-century political scandal that turned on questions of the authenticity of another set of documents.)
- Saunders, Bailey, "The Life and Letters of James Macpherson," Swann and Sonnenschein and Co., 1894, 327 p. (Relates the facts of Macpherson's life, as well as the reception of his literary works, and the course of the controversy they engendered.)
- Smart, J.S., James Macpherson: An Episode in Literature, David Nutt, 1905, 224 p. (A biographical and critical study of Macpherson's career, in which the author argues that he possessed "a sensitive and poetic mind, and a shrewd capacity for business.")
- Wain, John, "Alternative Poetry," in his Professing Poetry, New York: The Viking Press, 1978, pp. 13-44. (Discusses Macpherson's work in the context of the nineteenth-century revival of the Fenian story cycle.)
- Walsh, W. E., "Macpherson's Ossian," Queen's Quarterly: A Canadian Review XLV, No. 3 (Autumn, 1938): 366-76. (An historical overview of the controversy surrounding the publications of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry.)
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