Author:Charles Mackay (1814-1889)

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Charles Mackay
(1814–1889)

~1860

Works

Prose

• History of London from its Foundation by the Romans to the Accession of Queen Victoria (1838)
• The Thames and its Tributaries, or Rambles among Rivers (1840), (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Longbeard, Lord of London, a Romance (1841), in 3 vols. external source
• A collection of songs and ballads relative to the London prentices and trades; and to the affairs of London generally: during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries (1841) (external scan)
• Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
• The Scenery and Poetry of the English Lakes, a Summer Ramble (1846) (external scan)
• The Book of English songs (1850) (external scan)
• History of the Mormons (1851) (external scan)
• The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay (1859) (start transcription)
• Life and Liberty in America (1859), in 1 vol, vol 1, vol 2
• The legendary and romantic ballads of Scotland (1861) (external scan)
• The Gouty Philosopher, or the Opinions, Whims, and Eccentricities of John Wagstaffe, Esq. (1862) (external scan)
• The Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 (1863) (transcription project)
• The illustrated book of Scottish songs. From the 16th to the 19th century (1867) (external scan)
• Street tramways for London (1868) (external scan)
• Medora Leigh: a history and an autobiography (1869) (external scan)
• Under the Blue Sky (1871) (external scan)
• Lost Beauties of the English Language, an Appeal to Authors,’ &c. (1874) (external scan)
• The Gaelic and Celtic Etymology of the Languages of Western Europe (1877) (external scan)
• Forty Years' Recollections of Life, Literature, and Public Affairs (1830–1870) (1877) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• Luck, and what came of it: a Tale of our Times (1881) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• The Poetry and Humour of the Scotch Language (1882) (external scan)
• New light on some obscure words and phrases in the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries (1884) (external scan)
• The Founders of the American Republic (1885) (external scan)
• Through the Long Day, or Memorials of a Literary Life during Half a Century (1887), in 2 vols. vol 2
• The twin soul; or, The strange experiences of Mr. Rameses. A psychological and realistic romance (1887) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch (1888) (external scan)

Poetry

• Ballads and lyrics, 1859 external source
  • This Collection includes the "Legends of the Isles," illustrative of the romantic scenery and history of the Hebrides, and the adjoining mainland of Scotland, originally published at Edinburgh in the year 1845; the "Ballads and Lyrical Poems," issued in the same year; three smaller volumes, published in London at intervals from 1846 to 1849, under the titles of "Voices from the Mountains," "Voices from the Crowd," and "Town Lyrics."
• The poetical works of Charles Mackay, 1876 external source

• Little at First, but Great at Last in The Collected Songs of Charles Mackay (1859)
• The Working Man's Song
• Some love to roam
• Songs and Poems (1834)
• The Hope of the World (1840)
• The Salamandrine, or Love and Immortality (1842); 2nd edit. (1853); 3rd edit. (1856) external source
• Legends of the Isles and Other Poems (1845) external source
• Voices from the Crowd, and Town Lyrics (1846) external source
• Voices from the Mountain (1847); 2nd edit. (1857) external source
• Town Lyrics (1848)
• Egeria, or the Spirit of Nature (1850) external source
• Ballads and lyrical poems, 1856 external source
• The Lump of Gold (1856)
• Under Green Leaves (1857) external source
• A Man's Heart (1860)
• Studies from the Antique, and Sketches from Nature (1864)
• A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry (1869) (transcription project)
• Interludes and Undertones, or Music at Twilight (1884) external source
• Gossamer and Snowdrift (1890) external source

Works about Mackay

• "Mackay, Charles," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Mackay, Charles," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.