√ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | [Marginalia] | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | James MacPherson | The Poems of Ossian, the Son of Fingal | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | '... I also enlarged my acquaintance with English literature, read Johnson's "Lives of the Poets", and, as a consequen... | Samuel Bamford | James Macpherson | Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Percy Shelley's Reading List for 1815, compiled by Mary Shelley. Only texts not referred to in journal entries are gi... | Percy Bysshe Shelley | James MacPherson | The Works of Ossian, the son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language by James MacPherson | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 1800-1849 | Letter to Mrs Macintosh November 23 1800 'Nay, I find the relapse to calm sorrow, a relief from constant perturbation... | Anne Grant [nee MacVicar] | James Macpherson | The poems of Ossian | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 5 January 1843:
'It is many years since I looked at Ossian; & I never did mu... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | 'Carthon' | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, 10 January 1843:
'I have read only a small part of Ossian [...] I have been ... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | James Macpherson (as 'Ossian') | Ossian poems | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of an amanuensis, letter postmarked 19
January 1843:
'Since I last... | Hugh Stuart Boyd | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | Poems of Darthula | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Hugh Stuart Boyd to Elizabeth Barrett, in hand of amanuensis, letter postmarked 3 March
1843:
'Since I last wrote... | Harriet Holmes | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 31 March 1843:
'I feel guilty before you, since your last letter has remaine... | Elizabeth Barrett | James Macpherson (as 'translator' of Ossian) | The Death of Cuchullin | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'At this time the controversy concerning the pieces published by Mr James Macpherson as translations of [italics] Ossi... | Hugh Blair | James Macpherson | Fragments of Ancient Poetry collected in the Highlands of Scotland | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'The poem of "Fingal", he said, was a mere unconnected rhapsody, a tiresome repetition of the same images. "In vain sh... | Samuel Johnson | James MacPherson | 'Fingal: An Ancient Epic Poem' [from Poems of Ossian] | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'His disbelief of the authenticity of the poems ascribed to Ossian, a Highland bard, was confirmed in the course of hi... | James Boswell | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems, culminating in] Fingal, an Ancient Epic Poem in Six Books, together with Several Other Poems composed by Ossian, the Son of Fingal, translated from the Gaelic Language | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson thought the poems published as translations from Ossian had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might ... | Samuel Johnson | James Macpherson | [Ossian poems] | Print: Book |