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My contribution to #BadPoetryDay
A lady I know from Gurnee
Was stung on the arm by a wasp.
She said, “It’s alright,
It doesn’t hurt much,
I’m just glad it wasn’t a hornet” -
“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