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Roses are red, violets are blue. Today's #BadPoetryDay - over to you.
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“McGonagall is in a very special category, and has it all to himself. There are no other writings known to me that resemble his. So far as the whole tribe of poets is concerned, from the veritable lords of language to the worst doggerel-mongers, he stands alone.”
McGonagall, “Poute”, & the Bad Poets of Victorian Dundee – how bad poetry could be good business
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/11/mcgonagall-poute-and-the-bad-poets-of-victorian-dundee/
#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Dundee #BadPoetry #McGonagall
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Poetic Gems for Topaz: Verses for the Bicentenary of McGonagall
19 Nov, Dundee. Free, ticketedThe Wyvern Poets will share their verses written to celebrate the life, works & legacy of William Topaz McGonagall. The Wyvern Poets acknowledge McGonagall’s enduring impact, which has spread far beyond the city he called home.
#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #McGonagall #BadPoetry
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“What is significant about ‘An Address’ is that the variant spellings and particularly punctuation reproduced in the Journal… present it as far closer to Poute and his imitators… Readers knew this genre of mock-bad verse very well by 1877 and would naturally have questioned whether McGonagall was another conscious contributor to it.”
Was McGonagall, Andy Kaufman-like, in on the joke?
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#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #McGonagall #BadPoetry #BadPoetryDay
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“We feel that by the publication of this exquisite poem we are conferring an inestimable boon upon the literature of the nineteenth century”
“An Address to Thee Tay Bridge”, by William McGonagall, of course predates his more famous work on the Tay Bridge disaster. It is published in our collection POETS OF THE PEOPLE’S JOURNAL: Newspaper Poetry in Victorian Scotland
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https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/poets-of-the-peoples-journal/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #McGonagall #BadPoetry #BadPoetryDay
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“McGonagall was contributing to a pre-existing poetic culture that hovered between the satirical & the serious, & that caused difficulties for editors faced with deciding which was which”
Why bad poetry was good business in Victorian Dundee
Today, 18 August, is Bad Poetry Day
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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/11/mcgonagall-poute-and-the-bad-poets-of-victorian-dundee/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #McGonagall #BadPoetry #BadPoetryDay
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An Evening in Celebration of William Topaz McGonagall
20 April, Edinburgh – £1.79–£7.21Join the International Ghost Society for an evening in celebration of the poet William Topaz McGonagall (1825–1902) – a man commonly known as the worst poet ever to have lived …
#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #poetry #badpoetry #McGonagall