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George MacDonald

I lived from 1824-1905. I was from Scotland, and am in the English category.

I influenced poets Charles Dickens, Sydney Thompson Dobell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray.

George Macdonald (1824-1905) was known as a visionary even as a young man studying at College in Aberdeen. He was ordained as a Congregationalist, but, following disputes with his congregation about the content of his sermons, changed to a literary career and gained a considerable reputation as a spiritual poet and a novelist. He preached, lectured (including a tour of American), wrote fairy stories, edited “Good Words for the Young”, and made friends with notabilities as diverse as Browning, Carlyle, Morris, Tennyson, Arnold, Octavia Hill, Dean Stanley, and the eighth Duke of Argyll.

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  • Baby
    Where did you come from, baby dear?
    Out of the everywhere into here.
    34 lines, 2 comments
  • The Girl That Lost Things
    There was a girl that lost things--
    Nor only from her hand;
    88 lines, 3 comments
  • A Baby-Sermon
    The lightning and thunder
    They go and they come:
    3 lines, 2 comments
  • Song-Prayer: After King David
    I shall be satisfied
    With the seeing of thy face.
    8 lines
  • The Homeless Ghost
    Still flowed the music, flowed the wine.
    The youth in silence went;
    213 lines
  • King Cole
    King Cole he reigned in Aureoland,
    But the sceptre was seldom in his hand
    100 lines
  • Up And-Down
    The sun is gone down
    And the moon's in the sky
    18 lines, 5 comments
  • Evening Hymn
    O God, whose daylight leadeth down
    Into the sunless way,
    16 lines
  • A Make-Believe
    I will think as thinks the rabbit:—
    Oh, delight
    174 lines
  • Evil Influence
    'Tis not the violent hands alone that bring
    The curse, the ravage, and the downward doom,
    14 lines, 3 comments
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