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Surprising as it may seem, applications of statistical methods to physicswere inspired by the social sciences, which in turn are linked to thehumanities. So perhaps it is not as unlikely as it might first appear for agroup of statistical physicists and humanists to come together to investigateone of the subjects of Thomas Jefferson's poetic interests from a scientificpoint of view. And that is the nature of this article: a collaborativeinterdisciplinary analysis of the works of a figure Jefferson described as a''rude bard of the North'' and ''the greatest Poet that has ever existed.'' In2012, a subset of this team embraced an increase in interdisciplinary methodsto apply the new science of complex networks to longstanding questions incomparative mythology. Investigations of network structures embedded in epicnarratives allowed universal properties to be identified and ancient texts tobe compared to each other. The approach inspired new challenges in mathematics,physics and even processes in industry, thereby illustrating how collaborationsof this nature can be mutually beneficial and can capture the attention of apublic, often ill-served by academic communication and dissemination. Thisarticle derives from these works, and from our consistent objective to helpbridge the perceived gap between the natural sciences and the humanities. Firstwe discuss the history of relationships between the two. Then we discuss theorigins of the poems of Ossian and Jefferson's interests. We follow with ourstatistical approach in the next section. In the final section, we exploreideas for future research on these themes and discuss the potential ofcollaborative pursuits of human curiosity to overcome the two culturesdichotomy and embrace a scientific- and humanities-literate information age.

"The greatest Poet that has [n]ever existed" -- A Narrative Networks Analysis of the Poems of Ossian