He did nothing to raise the level of literary taste or to improve the literary language, and as for his poetical flights, it was obviously impossible to follow him into those giddy spheres.

External links Digitised version of Fragments of ancient poetry, collected in the Highlands of Scotland, and translated from the Galic or Erse language, published 1760 at National Library of Scotland The Poetical Works of Ossian Full text at Ex Classics Selected Bibliography James Macpherson and Ossian Excellent online bibliography compiled by designated experts in the field covering the most important scholarly monographs and articles on Ossian and Macpherson up to March 2004.