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Last Poetic Gems by William McGonagall, 1968-11 Railway Bridge of Silvery Tay by William McGonagall, 1972-08-17 World's Worst Poet: Selections from "Poetic Gems" by William McGonagall, 1992-10 Yet Further Poetic Gems by William McGonagall, 1980-10 Yet More Poetic Gems by William McGonagall, 1980 Further Poetic Gems by William McGonagall, 1985-05-23 More Poetic Gems by William McGonagall, 1975 Collected Poems by William McGonagall, 1999-01 The Tay Bridge Disaster and Other Poetic Gems by William McGonagall, 2000-07 The Worst Poet on Earth - William McGonagall by William McGonagall, 2009-04-17 McGonagall and Tommy Atkins by David Phillips, 1974 William McGonagall Truth at Last by Spike Milligan, 1978-01-01 LST POETIC GEMS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MCGONAGALL, POET AND TRAGEDIAN by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL, 1968 MORE POETIC GEMS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MCGONAGALL. by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL, 1972-01-01

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21. William McGonagall - The Tay Bridge Disaster
    The Tay Bridge Disaster. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken  
    http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/mcgon/disaster.htm

22. BBC - H2g2 - William McGonagall - Poet
    Concise article describing mcgonagall's life and work from the BBC h2g2 site.  
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/A416341
    
    Extractions: Send it to a friend! William Topaz McGonagall was born of rather poor Irish parents in Edinburgh, Scotland, in March 1825. In his nearly unreadable, rambling biographical notes , one eventually learns that he sprang from a family of five children and that he worked with his father as a handloom weaver. His education appears to have been patchy, but, in his own words, 'William has been like the immortal Shakespeare he had learned more from nature than he ever learned at school'. The family settled in Dundee while William was still a boy, and he lived there for the rest of his life. He died in 1902. As a grown man, he continued to work in the family trade, and married one Jean King in 1846. At about this time he also began to participate in amateur theatrics, acting in Shakespearean drama at the Dundee theatre. The Muse of Poetry appears to have captured his imagination, if not his talent, in the 1870s, beginning with a paean to a new railway bridge over the Tay River at Dundee in 1877. By McGonagall's own account, the poem was '... received with eclat and [he] was pronounced by the Press the Poet Laureate of the Tay Bridge...'. And after that he never stopped. His first collection of

23. Untitled
    william mcgonagall was born in Edinburgh but brought up in Orkney until his family moved to Dundee when he was 11.  
    http://www.firstfoot.co.uk/Great%20Scot/gonagall.htm

24. Past Issues Of Weekly Features For 2002
    Short biographical article and picture of a recently erected memorial plaque.  
    http://scottishculture.about.com/aboutuk/scottishculture/library/blfammcgonagall

25. Dundee City Council Scotland - SPIN-SOCITM Best WebSite Award Winner 2001
    A selection of original mcgonagall manuscripts and related documents from the collection of the Dundee Category Arts Literature Authors M mcgonagall, william  
    http://www.dundeecity.gov.uk/centlib/silverytay/

26. William McGonagall
    Biographical article from SCRAN multimedia database.  
    http://www.scran.ac.uk/ixbin/hixclient?_IXDB_=scran&submit-button=SUMMARY&am

27. The Worst Poem Of All Time: William Topaz McGonagall's “The Tay Bridge Disaster
    Text and criticism of the work.  
    http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa050499.htm?once=true&

28. McGonagall Online
    Search for Dundee, 30th May 1865. I certify that william McGonagallhas for some time been known to me. I have heard him speak, he  
    http://www.extracon.com/mcgonagall/

29. Index Page
    Selection of general and military works.  
    http://www.geocities.com/trollocksuk/
    
    Extractions: The Poetry Of William McGonagall The home of the famous Troll Poets. William McGonagall is the adopted patron poet of TrollCity message board. General Verse A Christmas Carol The Destroying Angel A Tribute to Henry Stanley The Heather Blend Club Banquet ... The Farewell Addres s An Address to the New Tay Bridge The Newport Railway A Tale Of The Sea The Tay Bridge Disaster ... The Collision in the English Channel Military Verse General Roberts The Hero Of Rorke's Drift The Battle of Gujrat The Battle of Atabara ... The First Grenadier of France

30. The Worst Poem Of All Time: William Topaz McGonagall's “The Tay Bridge Disaster
    The Worst Poem of All Time william Topaz mcgonagall's “The Tay Bridge Disaster”.Dateline 5/4/99 william Topaz mcgonagall. william Topaz mcgonagall.  
    http://poetry.about.com/library/weekly/aa050499.htm?once=true&

31. The Poetry Of Scotland - The Tay Bridge Disaster By William Topaz MacGonagall, S
    thought to mirror his own career. by william Topaz mcgonagall. BeautifulRailway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to  
    http://www.it-serve.co.uk/poetry/Mcgonagall/bridgedisaster.php
    
    Extractions: The Tay Bridge Disaster At 7.15pm on 28th December 1879, The Tay Bridge was blown down while a passenger train heading north from Edinburgh and Fife was attempting to cross. There were no survivors. Only 46 bodies were ever recovered. However, the train was pulled from the River Tay and went on to continue in service until 1902. The Tay Bridge Disaster is McGonagall's best known poem. He once asserted that "it was the only poem that made me famous universally". His tragic account of The Tay Bridge Disaster has become the definitive McGonagall poem and is often thought to mirror his own career. by William Topaz McGonagall Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!

32. Arts/Literature/Authors/M/McGonagall,_William
    of comedians. Chris Hunt, category editor (after william mcgonagall)/ Arts / Literature / Authors / M / mcgonagall, william.  
    http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Literature/Authors/M/McGonagal

33. Arts/Literature/Authors/M
    McCourt, Frank, McCutcheon, John T. McEwan, Ian. McGee, KR, mcgonagall,william, McHugh, Heather. McKay, Claude, McNab, Andy, Mencken, Henry Louis.  
    http://www.arts-entertainment-recreation.com/Arts/Literature/Authors/M/

34. William McGonagall (Poet And Tragedian)
    william Topaz mcgonagall. (poet and tragedian). He may have been born in Edinburghbut Dundee is the city where william Topaz mcgonagall's work flourished.  
    http://www.scottish-sculpture.com/Finished_Sculptures/William_Topaz_McGonagall.h
    
    Extractions: To arrange purchase of this or any other of my works by cheque or money order please email me William Topaz McGonagall (poet and tragedian) He may have been born in Edinburgh but Dundee is the city where William Topaz McGonagall's work flourished. A handloom weaver by trade he is world renowned for his disjointed poetry that simply doesn't scan. Whether he was an ingenious buffoon or a shrewd entertainer (McGonagall extracted fees of between 5 and 10/- (50p) from the crowds who gleefully attended his public humiliations) is open to debate. Whatever the case, one cannot fail to admire McGonagall's eternal optimism-this is the man who walked from Dundee to Balmoral to present a volume of his treasured verse to his beloved Queen Victoria only to be told at the gates of the castle to go away. For more information on William Topaz McGonnagal please visit: www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk

35. William "Topaz" McGonagall
    A "fairly long, but delightfully atrocious" example of mcgonagall's work, with comments Category Arts Literature Authors M mcgonagall, william it regain. by william mcgonagall. Comments. Wow! How many ways canone person go wrong in a piece of writing? mcgonagall's rhymes  
    http://www.lester.smith.net/mcgonagall.htm

36. William McGonagall
    Personal notes on the Great mcgonagall by Ed Cairney william mcgonagallis, after Shakespeare, the greatest poet who has ever lived.  
    http://www.mcgonagall.info/

37. [minstrels] The Tay Bridge Disaster -- William McGonagall
    343 The Tay Bridge Disaster. Title The Tay Bridge Disaster. Poet william mcgonagall. Date 16 Feb 2000. william mcgonagall.  
    http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/343.html
    
    Extractions: Title : The Tay Bridge Disaster Poet : William McGonagall Date : 16 Feb 2000 Beautiful Railway Br... Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq For a slight change of pace... The Tay Bridge Disaster William McGonagall http://www.wmich.edu/english/tchg/lit/pms/index.html http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/Sturgeon's-Law.html http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/mcgon/ Links: http://poetry.about.com/arts/poetry/library/weekly/aa050499.htm http://www.taynet.co.uk/users/mcgon/ (the McGonagall Appreciation Society - the mind boggles) On Bad Poetry: There is a huge amount of bad poetry in the world. Although new bad poems are being written by the hundreds every day (many of them in university creative writing classes), most bad poetry is simply weak and ineffectual and lacking in interest and (fortunately) is soon forgotten. To achieve memorable badness is not so easy. It has to be done innocently, by a poet unaware of his or her defects. The right combination of lofty ambition, humorless self-confidence, and crass incompetence is rare and precious. (There is a famous anthology of bad poetry called The Stuffed Owl, which I recommend to those interested.) Seamus Cooney, W. Michigan U. Compare McGonagall's wonderfully unconscious humour with the following work by 'the worst poet in the universe'... http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~nhughes/dna/docs/poetry.html

38. Scotland Magazine : Issue 5 :: William McGonagall: White Elephant
    Back to Issue 5 Back to Scottish Poets. william mcgonagall White Elephant By GavinD Smith. So who was william mcgonagall, selfstyled ‘Poet and Tragedian’?  
    http://www.scotlandmag.com/issue/5/scottish_poets/169
    
    Extractions: Gavin D Smith explains the peculiar success of Scotland's worst poet William McGonagall, aka 'Knight of the White Elephant of Burma' Scotland’s second best-known poet after Burns”, I said to the magazine’s Editor, trying to persuade him to commission a feature about William McGonagall, who died a century ago this year. “Scotland’s second-best poet,” he mused. “No,” I replied, “second best-known. There’s a big difference.”

39. Scottish Poet William McGonagall
    SVBanner.jpg (8465 bytes). william mcgonagall. (1830 1902). williammcgonagall is Dundee's best remembered nobody. He was a man  
    http://scotlandvacations.com/mcgonagall.htm
    
    Extractions: William McGonagall William McGonagall is Dundee's best remembered nobody. He was a man without talent who thought he was a great poet and tragedian and only needed an opportunity to prove it. This made him the perfect target for practical jokers who abounded in his day. He was engaged to give entertainments in small halls just so his audience could make a goat of him. His teetotal drink was spiked with alcohol. McGonagall had passed middle life before he got the idea he had been visited by the muse. He was born in Edinburgh in 1825 and grew up in Dundee, to which his father moved in search of work. William also laboured long hours in the weaving trade. All his life he was the butt of cruel jokes, but his faith in himself could not be shaken. His remains were dropped into a paupers' grave nearly a hundred years ago, but his memory holds up. All his poems have been published and so are there to be judged: they have, if nothing else, the quality of inimitability. Until earlier this year his name and portrait flourished over a public house in one of Dundee's main roads and a McGonagall Society endures.

40. BRIEF AUTOBIOGRAPHY By William McGonagall :: POETRY PARLOUR : Janet's Wordplay A
    mcgonagall's "Brief Autobiography" together with an appreciation and some samples of his Category Arts Literature Authors M mcgonagall, williamJanet's Wordplay and Puzzle Site Portrait of the Poet william mcgonagall (?18251902),by WB Lamond (1857-1924). BRIEF AUTOBIOGRAPHY. by william mcgonagall.  
    http://www.poetry-parlour.fsnet.co.uk/mcg.htm
    
    Extractions: First stage appearance. "The most startling incident in my life was the time I discovered myself to be a poet..." ... My own appreciation of William McGonagall's poetry. My father, being forced to leave Glasgow through want of work, came to Dundee, where plenty of work was to be had at the time-such as sacking, cloth, and other fabrics. It was at this time that your humble servant was sent to work in a mill in the Scouringburn, which was owned by Mr Peter Davie, and there I remained for about four years, after which I was taken from the mill, and put to learn the handloom in Ex-Provost Reid's factory, which was also situated in the Scouringburn. After I had learned to be an expert hand-loom weaver, I began to take a great delight in reading books, as well as to improve my handwriting, in my leisure hours at night, until I made myself what I am. The books that I liked best to read were Shakespeare's penny plays, more especially Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet, and Othello; and I gave myself no rest until I obtained complete mastery over the above four characters. Many a time in my dear father's absence I enacted entire scenes from Macbeth and Richard III, along with some of my shopmates, until they were quite delighted; and many a time they regaled me and the other actors that had entertained them to strong ale, biscuits, and cheese.

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