NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION

1 (return) [ See Scott's letter to Anna Seward in J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of Sir Walter Scott (London, 1900), I, 410-15.]

2 (return) [ The Poems of Ossian, ed. Malcolm Laing (Edinburgh, 1805), I, 441.]

3 (return) [ See Home's letter to Mackenzie in the Report of the Committee of the Highland Society of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1805), Appendix, pp. 68-69.]

4 (return) [ Carlyle to Mackenzie, ibid., p. 66.]

5 (return) [ Blair to Mackenzie, ibid., p. 57.]

6 (return) [ Ibid., p. 58.]

7 (return) [ Quoted from The Poems of Ossian (London, 1807), I, 222. After its initial separate publication, Blair's dissertation was regularly included with the collected poems.]

8 (return) [ Correspondence of Thomas Gray, ed. Paget Toynbee and Leonard Whibley (Oxford, 1935), II, 679-80.]

9 (return) [ The Works of Lord Byron, Poetry, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (London, 1898), I, 183.]

10 (return) [ "On Poetry in General," The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, ed. P. P. Howe (London, 1930), V, 18.]

11 (return) [ Quoted in Henry Grey Graham, Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century (London, 1908), p. 240.]

12 (return) [ Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Alexander Allardyce (Edinburgh, 1888), I, 547.]

13 (return) [ "The Influence of Ossian," English, VII (1948), 96.]

14 (return) [ The Sublime (Ann Arbor, 1960), p. 126.]

15 (return) [ The Insistence of Horror (Cambridge, Mass., 1962), pp. 86-87.]

16 (return) [ The Sufferings of Young Werther, trans. Bayard Morgan (New York, 1957), p. 51.]

17 (return) [ Report, Appendix, p. 58.]

18 (return) [ See Robert M. Schmitz, Hugh Blair (New York, 1948), p. 48.]

FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY

Collected in the Highlands of Scotland,

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