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William Topaz McGonagall, poet and tragedian of Dundee, has been widely hailed as the writer of the worst poetry in the English language.A self-educated hand loom weaver of Irish descent, he discovered his discordant muse in 1877 and embarked upon a 25 year career as a working poet, delighting and appalling audiences across Scotland and beyond.
Born in Ireland in March, 1825, William McGonagall was a poet, actor, and weaver. He only published one collection of poems in his lifetime, Poetic Gems (Winter, Duncan & Co., 1890), which he often performed publicly.He died in Edinburgh, Scotland, on September 29, 1902.
And the cry rang out all o’er the town, Good Heavens! the Tay Bridge is blown down, And a passenger train from Edinburgh, Which fill’d all the peoples hearts with sorrow, And made them for to turn pale, Because none of the passengers were sav’d to tell the tale. How the disaster happen’d on the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be ...
7 de jul. de 2020 · Well, if you can call William Topaz McGonagall’s output literature … Championed by such comedic geniuses as Spike Milligan, who starred as McGonagall opposite Peter Sellers as Queen Victoria – yes, you read that correctly – in the 1974 film The Great McGonagall, the man renowned as the world’s worst poet was basically a man who wrote ...
William Topaz McGonagall Biography. Born in 1825, William McGonagall was a Scottish poet and actor who is largely accused of writing some of the worst doggerel poetry of all time, including his most famous work The Tay Bridge Disaster. Though he often failed to appreciate the fundamental building blocks of poetry, much of his later popularity ...
William Topaz McGonagall (1830-1902) - the self-taught weaver from Dundee - is sometimes called "Scotland's Alternative Poet." But more often he is regarded (or celebrated) as the worst poet in the whole world. Like Scotland's bard Robert Burns, McGonagall has arisen from his pauper's grave in Edinburgh's haunted Greyfriar's Churchyard, to be ...
19 de abr. de 2023 · William Topaz McGonagall ( 1825 – September 29, 1902) was a Scottish weaver, actor, and poet. Born in Edinburgh of Irish parents, he settled in Dundee. He is comically renowned as one of the most loved poets in the English language; his distinctive verse style is often imitated in Private Eye and Spike Milligan was among his many "admirers".
