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Roses are red, violets are blue. Today's #BadPoetryDay - over to you.
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Today is #BadPoetryday so here goes
*Coughs and clears throatViolets are red,
Roses are blue,
this poem is a prototype,
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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” -
We have seen thee, queen of cheese,
Lying quietly at your ease…James McIntyre (1828–1906) was born in Forres, & later emigrated to Canada. He wrote poetry, much of it about cheese. His “Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weight Over 7,000 Pounds“ was about a huge cheese produced in Ingersoll in 1866 & sent to various international exhibitions.
Published in Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, 1889)
#Scottish #literature #Canada #Canadian #cheese #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #BadPoetryDay
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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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Roses are red, violets are blue. Today's #BadPoetryDay - over to you.
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It's Bad Poetry Day!
We invite you to celebrate this jolly occasion by reading some of the works of Britain's Worst Poet of All Time, William McGonagall of Dundee!
Here's a selection of his works & #biography & a #graphicnovel -
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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.”
Bad poetry was good business in #Victorian Dundee…
#Scottish #literature #poetry #19thcentury #BadPoetryDay
https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/11/mcgonagall-poute-and-the-bad-poets-of-victorian-dundee/
