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The Cavalier Songs And Ballads Of England From 1642 To 1684 (1863) (Paperback)
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The Cavalier Songs And Ballads Of England From 1642 To 1684 (1863) (Paperback)
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Charles Mackay (1814-1889) was a British poet, journalist, and song
writer. He was born in Perth, Scotland and educated at the Royal
Caledonian Asylum, London, and at Brussels, but spent much of his
early life in France. Coming to London in 1834, he engaged in
journalism, working for The Morning Chronical from 1835-1844 and
then became editor of The Glasgow Argus. He moved to The
Illustrated London News in 1848 becoming editor in 1852. He
published Songs and Poems (1834), wrote a History of London, and a
romance, Longbeard. He is also remembered for his Dictionary of
Lowland Scotch. His fame, however, chiefly rests upon his songs,
some of which, including Cheer, Boys, Cheer, were in 1846 set to
music by Henry Russell, and had an astonishing popularity. Mackay
acted as Times correspondent during the American Civil War and in
that capacity discovered and disclosed the Fenian conspiracy. His
book Extraordinary Popular Delusions (1841) is a popular history of
popular folly. The book chronicles and vilifies its targets in
three parts: National Delusions, Peculiar Follies, and
Philosophical Delusions.
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