Questions tagged [william-mcgonagall]
Questions about the Scottish poet William McGonagall (1825-1902) or his life as a writer. He is widely regarded as one of the worst poets in English literature.
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Why are William Mcgonagall's poems considered so terrible?
While writing up the wiki excerpt for william-mcgonagall a couple of weeks back, I came upon a rather surprising remark about him in Wikipedia:
He won notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited ...
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Was Fontane's Tay Bridge poem compared to McGonagall's at the time?
The Tay Bridge Disaster is one of the most famous bridge collapses. It inspired a universally reviled (yet nevertheless wildly (in)famous) poem from William McGonagall, "The Tay Bridge Disaster&...
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