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Tick of the Clock

16/3/1867

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
World—History
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Attribution: reprinted in Charles Mackay, The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1876).

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Literature; Writing; Authorship; Reading; Books; Poetry; Storytelling; Letter Writing
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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Attribution: reprinted in Selected Poems and Songs of Charles Mackay (London: Whittaker and Co., 1888).

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Language and Languages
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Nature; Nature (Aesthetics); Nature in Literature; Landscapes
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
United States—Description and Travel
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Attribution: reprinted in Poems of America, edited by Henry Longfellow (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888), where it is attributed to Mackay.

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Music; Musical Instruments; Songs; Singing; Opera
Popular Culture; Amusements
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Article reprinted (prefaced by a few new introductory sentences, and minus the last--the editorial imprimatur--and with 'I' substituted for 'the writer') as 'The Mirth of the Million' in Mackay's collection of essays, Under the Blue Sky (London: Samson Low, 1871), pp. 188-201. Ex inf. Christine Kyprianides.

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects Animals; Domestic Animals; Pets; Working Animals; Birds; Insects
Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Short Fiction i
Subjects Great Britain—History
London (England)—Description and Travel
Marriage; Courtship; Love; Sex
Myth; Legends; Epic Literature; Fables; Allegory; Folklore
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Supernatural; Superstition; Spiritualism; Clairvoyance; Mesmerism; Ghosts; Fairies; Witches; Magic; Occultism
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At a Club Dinner

11/7/1868

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Friendship
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Attribution: reprinted in The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1876).

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Winifred

25/7/1868

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
Subjects Death; Grief; Mourning; Mourning Customs in Literature; Funeral Rites and Ceremonies; Life Cycle, Human; Old Age; Mortality
Religion; Religion and Culture
Religion—Christianity—General
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Ice

1/8/1868

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Subjects Natural Sciences (Astronomy / Botany / Geology / Natural History / Oceanography / Paleontology / Zoology)
Weather; Meteorology; Climate; Seasons
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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Associations; Institutions; Clubs; Labor Unions
Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
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Attribution: Part. III The Angry Pessimist is reprinted as 'Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public' by Charles Mackay in The Book of Humorous Verse, ed. by Carolyn Wells (NEW YORK: GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY, 1936).

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Music and Misery

15/8/1868

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Essay i
Subjects London (England)—Description and Travel
Music; Musical Instruments; Songs; Singing; Opera
Popular Culture; Amusements
Urbanization; Urban Life and Landscapes
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Author Charles Mackay
Subjects Beauty, Personal; Grooming; Appearance (Philosophy); Physiognomy
Commercial Products (Commodities); Material Culture; Shopping; Advertising
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Attribution: reprinted as 'False Hair' in The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1876).

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Attribution: Dickens writes to Mackay on 15 September 1868. 'I have no doubt I shall be pleased with "Walks and Talks with the people". The MS will be found awaiting me at the Office tomorrow, I take it. Mephistopheles is already in', The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and others, Pilgrim Edition, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002), XII, p. 183.

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
Subjects Ethics; Morals; Moral Development; Moral Education; Philosophy; Values
Progress; Memory; Commemoration; Nostaliga; Time—Social Aspects; Time—Psychological Aspects; Time perception;
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Attribution: reprinted in The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1876).

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Autobiography; Biography; Memoirs; Obituary; Anecdotes i
Subjects Education; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Education—Great Britain; Universities and Colleges; Schools
Emigration; Immigration; Expatriation
Great Britain—Description and Travel
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Great Britain—Social Life and Customs
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Attribution: Dickens writes to Mackay on 15 September 1868. 'I have no doubt I shall be pleased with "Walks and Talks with the people". The MS will be found awaiting me at the Office tomorrow, I take it. Mephistopheles is already in', The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and others, Pilgrim Edition, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002), XII, p. 183.

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Prose: Report i
Subjects Great Britain—Armed Forces; Militias
Great Britain—Social Conditions—Nineteenth Century
Social classes; Class distinctions; Aristocracy (Social Class); Aristocracy (Social Class)—Fiction; Middle Class; Working Class; Servants;
War; Battles; Peace; Military History; Weapons; Soldiers
Work; Work and Family; Occupations; Professions; Wages
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Attribution: Dickens writes to Mackay on 15 September 1868. 'I have no doubt I shall be pleased with "Walks and Talks with the people". The MS will be found awaiting me at the Office tomorrow, I take it. Mephistopheles is already in', The Letters of Charles Dickens, ed. by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and others, Pilgrim Edition, 12 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965-2002), XII, p. 183.

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Narrative i
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Attribution: reprinted in The Poetical Works of Charles Mackay (London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1876).

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The Poet

2/1/1869

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Author Charles Mackay
Genre Poetry: Lyric i
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Attribution: reprinted in Selected Songs and Poems by Charles Mackay (London: Whittaker and Co., 1888).

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