21. Love Him Or Loathe Him, William McGonagall Is A Scottish Literary Legend - Inter Love him or loathe him, william mcgonagall is a Scottish literary legend. http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/30/arts/EU-A-E-BKS-Britain-Bad-Poet.php

var tools_host = 'http://www.iht.com'; var tools_path_n_filename = '/articles/ap/2007/07/30/arts/EU-A-E-BKS-Britain-Bad-Poet.php'; var tools_headline = 'Love him or loathe him, William McGonagall is a Scottish literary legend'; var tools_articleID = '6892943'; Culture iht.com Business Culture ... Search Love him or loathe him, William McGonagall is a Scottish literary legend The Associated Press Published: July 30, 2007 document.writeln(''); E-Mail Article Listen to Article Printer-Friendly 3-Column Format Translate Share Article Text Size EDINBURGH, Scotland: His most famous work, a poem initially titled "The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay," drew derision from crowds when it required a hasty rewrite after the structure collapsed in 1879. Today in Culture Sundance: New American realism emerges amid grousing and Hummers Rambo: Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the jungle "The decision to turn down a place for McGonagall was just snobbery pure and simple," said Bob Watt, chairman of the Edinburgh Friends of William McGonagall. McGonagall himself was confident of his genius, believing his poetry to be second only to that of Shakespeare.

22. William Topaz McGonagall, The Dundee Bard Or The World's Best Bad Poet william Topaz mcgonagall, one of the worst poets, author of The Tay Bridge Disaster poem. http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/Scotland-History/WilliamMcGonagall.htm

H ISTORIC Home Accommodation: Stay UK England Scotland Wales ... Ireland Our Selections: Castles Cottages Country House Hotels ... Privacy Statement UK.com THE history and heritage accommodation guide SITE MAP Welcome to History UK - the History of Scotland! William McGonagall – The bard of Dundee Each January, scotsmen and women across the world join together in order to celebrate the life and works of the greatest of all Scottish poets, Rabbie Burns . And during such gatherings, the words of the great man are read out aloud for all to appreciate, whilst little mention is made about William Topaz McGonagall – the bard of Dundee. William Topaz McGonagall was born in Edinburgh to poor Irish parents, in March 1825. One of a family of five children, his father worked as a handloom weaver. The family moved to Dundee when William was still a boy. William eventually moved into the family trade, and married Jean King in 1846. It was about this time that he also began to take part in amateur theatre productions, acting in Shakespearean plays. It was perhaps the influence of the

23. RPO -- Selected Poetry Of William McGonagall (1830?-1902) Born in about 1830 in Edinburgh of Irish parents, william mcgonagall earned his living as a handloom weaver. He married Jean King on July 11, 1846. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/414.html

Poet Index Poem Index Random Search ... Concordance document.writeln(divStyle) Selected Poetry of William McGonagall (1830?-1902) from Representative Poetry On-line Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967. RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries Index to poems An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan Attempted Assassination of the Queen The Battle of Omdurman The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir ... The Tay Bridge Disaster Notes on Life and Works Born in about 1830 in Edinburgh of Irish parents, William McGonagall earned his living as a hand-loom weaver. He married Jean King on July 11, 1846. He heard, and obeyed, a call to write poetry in June 1877 and brought out a collection the next year, including a poem on the great Tay bridge in Dundee. An actor in Shakespeare plays performed locally, and a bard whom many held in contempt, McGonagall lived variously in Dundee, Perth, and Edinburgh. He travelled to London and New York, though very poor. In 1890 two volumes of his collected poems came out, many previously issued as broadsides or in newspapers. The King of Burma honoured him with the title of Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah. He died on September 29, 1902, at 5 South College Street, Edinburgh.

24. Bard Of The Silv'ry Tay | Review | Guardian Unlimited Books There are a few standard remarks that pursue the name of william mcgonagall. He is the world s worst poet , a writer so bad he is good. http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1690068,00.html

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25. McGonagall, William - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About McGonagall, William Hutchinson encyclopedia article about mcgonagall, william. mcgonagall, william. Information about mcgonagall, william in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/McGonagall, William

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='McGonagall, William' Printer Friendly 761,896,598 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia McGonagall, William Also found in: Wikipedia 0.04 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0) Poetic Gems were published in 1954, followed by More Poetic Gems in 1962. He was born in Edinburgh, of Irish descent. After some schooling in Glasgow he became a weaver in Dundee, and a reciter of dramatic monologues, including some from Shakespeare. To these he added topical compositions of his own, so unconsciously but ludicrously unpoetic that they are inimitable. hut(1) write_ads(AdsNum, 0) Page tools Printer friendly Cite / link Email Feedback Sign in Email: Password: Register Charity('US') Your Ad Here Mentioned in No references found Hutchinson browser Full browser McGhee, 'Brownie' McGill, Donald McGill, Hon. James McGillicuddy, Cornelius ... McGivney, Michael (Joseph) McGonagall, William McGoohan, Patrick

26. Great Scotsmen Humorous tribute from the alternative voice of Scotland . http://www.firstfoot.com/Great Scot/gonagall.htm

Home Classifieds Today's Joke Weather ... Dictionary Web firstfoot Wyndham Halswelle Alexander Bain JBS Haldane Don Roberto ... Guy Aldred William McGonagall Poet - 1825-1902 "Mac Gonagall, Mac Gonagall, the worst of writers, of them all. He's known tae pen a poem or two, and through so doing gather, a fame that gets the purists goin', in somethin' o' a lather." William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh but brought up in Orkney until his family moved to Dundee when he was 11. This was his true, spiritual home and no mistake. The City that would ultimately spawn such literary classics as "The Beano", "The Dandy", "The People's Friend" and last but by no means least "The Sunday Post", is a somewhat fitting scenario for a genius such as McGonagall's. He has the somewhat dubious claim to fame of being the worst poet that Scotland, or indeed the world, has ever produced. When one examines his work, it's easy to see why. But damn, he's so bad, he's superb.

27. White Elephant : Scotland Magazine Issue 5 Article from Issue 5 of Scotland Magazine White Elephant by Gavin D. Smith - GAVIN D SMITH EXPLAINS THE PECULIAR SUCCESS OF SCOTLAND’S WORST POET william http://www.scotlandmag.com/magazine/issue5/12006249.html

Sunday 27th January 2008 Published in Scotland Magazine Issue 5 on 4/11/2002. Subscribe Buy this issue More from this issue Preview other issues This article is 68 months old and some information provided may be time sensitive. Please check all details of events, tours, opening times and other information before travelling or making arrangements. White Elephant Scotland’s second best-known poet after Burns”, I said to the magazine’s Editor, trying to persuade him to commission a feature about William McGonagall, who died a century ago this year. “Scotland’s second-best poet,” he mused. “No,” I replied, “second best-known. There’s a big difference.” Robert Burns is acknowledged the world over as a fine writer by any standards – technically accomplished, sensitive and insightful, with an impressive breadth of subject matter and a clear mastery over it. When it comes to William McGonagall, however, Scottish author William McIlvanney recently described him as the “ foremost poet of banal pomposity, excruciating scansion and rhymes of such numbing impact they could give you cauliflower ears just from silent reading.” Indeed, if Burns can be judged Scotland’s best poet, then McGonagall is undoubtedly its worst, and to some even the World’s Worst Poet. Yet while Burns societies exist in every corner of the globe, McGonagall appreciation societies have proliferated in almost equal numbers. Some 300 websites are dedicated to McGonagall, including a number in the Russian and Romanian languages. The very awfulness of his work has become its virtue.

28. Bad Poetry Index william mcgonagall (1825 or 18301902), leading contender for the title of the world s worst poet. Try the web page devoted to his works (thanks to Chris http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/index.html

Seamus Cooney Studies in Verse / The Nature of Poetry Bad Poetry There is a huge amount of bad poetry in the world. Although new bad poems are being written by the hundreds every day (many of them in university creative writing classes), most bad poetry is simply weak and ineffectual and lacking in interest and (fortunately) is soon forgotten. To achieve memorable badness is not so easy. It has to be done innocently, by a poet unaware of his or her defects. The right combination of lofty ambition, humorless self-confidence, and crass incompetence is rare and precious. (There is a famous anthology of bad poetry called The Stuffed Owl , which I recommend to those interested.) For the student, having a genuine insight into the true badness of some poems is, I think, a necessary corollary of having a grasp of what makes good poems good. So these pages present some classics of badness: supreme achievements of the lame, the naive, the meretricious, the bathetic, and the sentimental. Note: the canon of bad poetry is as fluid and open to discussion and emendation as any other literary canon. Feel free to suggest additions or to defend one of these specimens. (For a rich source of further examples, consult , edited by D. B. Wyndham Lewis and Charles Lee.)

29. William McGonagall | Poetry Hut Blog: Poetry News New Tay disaster william mcgonagall faces challenge to title of world’s Love him or loathe him, william mcgonagall is a Scottish literary legend — http://www.poetryhut.com/wordpress/index.php/tag/william-mcgonagall/

@import "http://www.poetryhut.com/wordpress/wp-content/themes/beastblog/style.css"; Jump to Content Jump to Navigation Jump to Footer Poetry Hut Blog: Poetry News William McGonagall butterfly butterfly butterfly butterfly Posts that feature this tag: Poetry News for October 9, 2007 Poetry News: The Happy Endings Foundation hoax Editorial: A Muse Unplugged In three books, over eight years, Matthea Harvey has moved to the front of the pack of interesting poets writing in English Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts ... tell you the winners. now with 100% more anti-depressants and oral contraceptives. only antidote to this , to me. I think our Constitutional Republic has been replaced by a corporate-controlled oligarchy . There are a bunch of videos of the rally at You Tube Tagged with: Allen Ginsberg Christian Wiman Grace Paley Joseph Brodsky ... Poetry News for July 31, 2007 Poetry News: Poet laureate finds rhyme and reason in ordinary life Love him or loathe him, William McGonagall is a Scottish literary legend The Diameter of the Bomb by Yehuda Amichai The Lost Poems of Joe Dimaggio ... Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2007 Results Tagged with: Bulwer Lytton creative writing Poetry Poetry News ... Poetry News For April 5, 2007

30. LibriVox » The Railway Bridge Of The Silvery Tay, By William McGonagall Scottish poet william mcgonagall is widely considered to be one of the worst poets of the English language. He wrote this poem in honor of The Tay Rail http://librivox.org/the-railway-bridge-of-the-silvery-tay-by-william-mcgonagall/

If the files are not available please try back later, as archive.org is having issues. The files are safe but may be temporarily unavailable. Catalog Index The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay by William McGonagall LibriVox volunteers bring you nine different readings of The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay The Tay Rail Bridge which was opened in 1878 and which subsequently collapsed a year later, causing the death of 75 train passengers, and inspiring McGonagall to write yet famously bad poem entitled The Tay Bridge Disaster . This was the weekly poetry project for the week of March 26, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman) McGonagall Online e-text Wikipedia - William McGonagall Wikipedia - The Tay Rail Bridge The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay Internet Archive page Zip file of the entire book RSS feed Subscribe in iTunes ... Chapter-a-day mp3 and ogg files Version 1 - 00:03:05 ogg vorbis - 2.1MB Read by: Annie Coleman Version 2 - 00:02:41 ogg vorbis - 1.5MB Read by: Brett Shand Version 3 - 00:02:40 ogg vorbis - 1.4MB Read by: Kara Shallenberg Version 4 - 00:03:46 ogg vorbis - 1.9MB

31. [minstrels] The Tay Bridge Disaster -- William McGonagall And then there s william mcgonagall. To quote Untermeyer, At his best he is unforgettable, standing mountainhigh above his host of imitators. http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/343.html

[343] The Tay Bridge Disaster Title : The Tay Bridge Disaster Poet : William McGonagall Date : 16 Feb 2000 Beautiful Railway Br... Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq For a slight change of pace... The Tay Bridge Disaster William McGonagall http://www.wmich.edu/english/tchg/lit/pms/index.html http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Sturgeon's-Law.html http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/mcgon/ Links: http://poetry.about.com/arts/poetry/library/weekly/aa050499.htm http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/mcgon/ (the McGonagall Appreciation Society - the mind boggles) On Bad Poetry: There is a huge amount of bad poetry in the world. Although new bad poems are being written by the hundreds every day (many of them in university creative writing classes), most bad poetry is simply weak and ineffectual and lacking in interest and (fortunately) is soon forgotten. To achieve memorable badness is not so easy. It has to be done innocently, by a poet unaware of his or her defects. The right combination of lofty ambition, humorless self-confidence, and crass incompetence is rare and precious. (There is a famous anthology of bad poetry called The Stuffed Owl, which I recommend to those interested.) Seamus Cooney, W. Michigan U. Compare McGonagall's wonderfully unconscious humour with the following work by 'the worst poet in the universe'... http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/docs/poetry.html

32. Mcgonagall Article and appreciation of the teetotal twit who thought he was Tennyson , by poet WN Herbert. http://www.xen19.dial.pipex.com/mcgonagall.htm

William McGonagall: Quixote of the North A hundred years after his death, why do we still remember McGonagall, that drab Dundonian bardie? Nobody debates the fact that he was a truly terrible writer, who led a miserable life of poverty and public ridicule, so why? Is it that we dislike poetry so much we actually need him as a scapegoat for the whole pretentious profession? Kick McGonagall, you might say, and we’re kicking that whole clan of smart-arse softies. Or is it that we sneakingly love him for his artlessness, his sheer have-a-go awfulness? He may be a scabby dug, but he’s our scabby dug. McGonagall had all the qualifications to be a great poet – except for the talent. He certainly had the pose and the persistence: although buffeted by life just as the Tay Bridge was by that storm, he never fell down, and this is a clue as to his longevity. McGonagall is a genuine archetype: the fool who has a touching but totally unfounded faith in his own genius. His gift was to convey this with absolute transparency in his writing: all his flaws are displayed, and they are hilarious and wretched. Unlike many far better poets, McGonagall’s verse is instantly recognisable, unmistakably him. See how, in ‘The Tay Whale’, he’s inexorably drawn to the ridiculous detail:

33. Anecdotage.Com - Thousands Of True Funny Stories About Famous People. Anecdotes william mcgonagall, widely acclaimed as the world s worst poet, did not begin writing until, at the age of 47 (or 52, according to some sources), http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=16820

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35. MAINLY ON THE PLAIN: The Bunny Cycle (a Tribute To William McGonagall) One of the threads over on Salon.com s TableTalk forum challenges participants to write a poem as bad as the work of william mcgonagall http://gaelstat.blogspot.com/2007/08/bunny-cycle-tribute-to-william.html

skip to main skip to sidebar MAINLY ON THE PLAIN This blog is intended to document David Giltinan's great Spanish caper (March to September, 2007) Thursday, August 30, 2007 The bunny cycle (a tribute to William McGonagall) Jared: you bear full responsibility for this post. One of the threads over on Salon.com's TableTalk forum challenges participants to write a poem as bad as the work of William McGonagall (arguably the worst poet of all time - to judge for yourself, follow either of these links): McGonagall poems McGonagall website While I don't think I could ever reach the level of atrociousness that came so easily to McGonagall, it certainly is fun to try. So, I'd like to share with you two of my efforts. Collectively, I think of them as my bunny cycle. For reasons which will be clear below, there will (mercifully) be no more poems in this particular cycle. Bunnies I like to see the bunnies romp They fill me full of joy And circumstance and lots of pomp It's like having a bright shiny new toy But when the bunnies eat the lettuce I hope they won't forget us I frolic in the dappled sun Like Gerald Manley Hopkins Though really what I want to do Is dress like Mary Poppins Fuzzy Bunny (The Bunny Cycle : Poem # 2) At times when I'm feeling down and think I should end

36. William McGonagall Feature Page On Undiscovered Scotland william mcgonagall Feature Page on Undiscovered Scotland The Ultimate Online Guide. http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/mno/williammcgonagall.html

Skip to main page content (AccessKey S) William McGonagall Undiscovered Scotland: The Ultimate Online Guide Home Site Index Biography Map Index (Feature Level) Full Biography Menu (Feature Level) Left Index (Feature Level) The Modern Tay Railway Bridge, with Dundee in the Background William Topaz McGonagall lived from 1825 to 29 September 1902. He is widely celebrated as the worst poet to have written in the English language, or quite possibly in any other. McGonagall was born in Edinburgh and spent his childhood until the age of 11 in Orkney. He then moved with his family to Dundee, the city that was to be his home for the rest of his life. Until about the age of 52, in 1877, McGonagall worked as a handloom weaver, with occasional diversions into amateur dramatics, and Shakespeare in particular. But then, according to The Autobiography of Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Poet and Tragedian, Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah: "Dame Fortune has been very kind to me by endowing me with the genius of poetry. I remember how I felt when I received the spirit of poetry. It was in the year of 1877, and in the month of June, when the flowers were in full bloom. Well, it being the holiday week in Dundee, I was sitting in my back room in Paton's Lane, Dundee, lamenting to myself because I couldn't get to the Highlands on holiday to see the beautiful scenery, when all of a sudden my body got inflamed, and instantly I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears: Write! Write!"

37. William Topaz McGonagall Night william Topaz mcgonagall was the greatest of all Scottish poets and passed away in September 1902. We had a party to celebrate his great works. http://www.vord.net/friends/mcgonagall/mcgonagall_02.html

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38. Famous Scots - William McGonagall Famous Scots william mcgonagall (1830-1902). Plaque in Greyfriar s Churchyard Despite his reputation as the world s worst poet mcgonagall s poems are http://www.rampantscotland.com/famous/blfammcgonagall.htm

Famous Scots - William McGonagall (1830-1902) Despite his reputation as the "world's worst poet" McGonagall's poems are nowadays read, quoted and enjoyed more than ever, although perhaps because they offer more amusement than insight. McGonagall's parents came from Ireland but they moved to Scotland where McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830, or thereabouts (some sources give 1825). McGonagall's father was a hand-loom weaver and the family moved to Paisley, then Glasgow, before settling in Dundee. Due to lack of money, William's education lasted only eighteen months but that was enough to start him onto reading and then writing. Although he trained as a hand-loom weaver like his father he, had a brief career on the stage - as Macbeth. But, as McGonagall himself said, "The most startling incident in my life was the time I discovered myself to be a poet, which was in the year 1877." He became a well-known public figure and toured Scotland giving performances of his poetry and selling copies of his poems. The fact that his audience was more amused than impressed did not seem to perturb him. He had a brief and disappointing trip to New York in 1877 but a selection of his poems were published under the title "Poetic Gems" in 1890. His self-belief in his own brilliance as a poet was unshakeable and an unsuccessful attempt to drop in to see Queen Victoria at Balmoral left him "not in the least discouraged." He still wrote "An Ode to the Queen in her Jubilee Year." MacGonagall's poems on the "Famous Tay Whale" and the "Tay Bridge Disaster" are perhaps his most famous but he also produced a great many other poems about the people, places and events of his day. His wayward rhymes, mixed scansion and choice of subject matter perhaps justify his title of worst poet of the world. And yet he is held in great affection and a memorial plaque was erected to his memory in Greyfriar's Churchyard in Edinburgh in 1999. He would have enjoyed writing a poem about that...

39. Graham Turnbull :: Weblog :: William McGonagall I was checking a record on Scran today about the Fair Maid s House in Perth and my search accidentally brought up william mcgonagall online where his poem http://scribble.scran.ac.uk/grahamt/weblog/45.html

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What's New? Login/Register Canon Portkey FAQs ... Contact Us Remembrall search Wizarding World Magic Places Bestiary ... Home compiled and written by Penny Linsenmayer Back to Muggle Encyclopedia Index Manchester Marlboro Lights Matthewson, Emma ... Music favourites Manchester In 1990, Rowling followed her long-term boyfriend from her Exeter days to Manchester in England's industrial northern region. It was on a train delay from Manchester back to London that Rowling first had the inspiration for Harry Potter and began to plot out the novels. Marlboro Lights Brand of cigarette JKR smoked. She apologizes for the habit and admits to being "a flawed role model" ( ). According to her website, Jo quit smoking several years ago and now chews a lot of gum and plays Minesweeper ( JKR Matthewson, Emma http://www.scbwifrance.com/meetthepros/interviews_2000_01/emma_matthewson.htm McGonagall, Sir William Topaz Born in Edinburgh in 1825, McGonagall is sometimes known as 'Scotland's worst poet,' and was the source of Professor McGonagall 's surname. The gonnagles of the Nac Mac Feegle in Terry Pratchett 's excellent Discworld novels - battle poets who when on form can make an enemy's ears explode - are a more direct reference to the same awful poet. Consequently, we recommend consulting the

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