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Poetic Gems selected from the Works of William McGonagall Poet and Tradegian by William McGonagall, 1969 MORE POETIC GEMS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF WILLIAM MCGONAGALL WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH AND REMINISCENCES BY THE AUTHOR by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL, 1962 Poetic gems selected from the works of William McGonagall, poet and tragedian, with biographical sketch and reminiscences by the author by William McGonagall, 1934-01-01 Scottish People of Irish Descent: Sean Connery, William Mcgonagall, Tony Mcmanus, Carol Ann Duffy, James Connolly, Billy Connolly Poète Écossais: Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Murray Mccheyne, William Auld, Alexander Wilson, William Mcgonagall (French Edition) The great McGonagall;: Poetical pearls from the pen of William McGonagall, poet & tragedian of Dundee (The Victorian library, v. 9) by William McGonagall, 1968 Burials at Greyfriars Kirkyard: James Hutton, Colin Maclaurin, William Mcgonagall, Thomas M'crie the Elder, William Adam, James Burnett People Associated With Dundee: William Mcgonagall, Brian Molko, Dudley D. Watkins, George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead, Eddie Thompson Poetic Gems Selected From the Works of William McGonagall Poet and Tragedian. by WILLIAM McGONAGALL, 1985 Scottish Poets: Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, James I of Scotland, William Mcgonagall, Thomas the Rhymer, George Macdonald Last Poetic Gems Selected from the Works of William McGonagall by James L (Ed) Smith, 1978-01-01 William McGonagall Meets George Gershwin by Spike and Jack Hobbs Milligan, 1988 More Poetic Gems selected from the works of William McGonagall Poet and Tragedian by William McGonagall, 1962-01-01 More poetic gems selected from the works of William McGonagall by William McGONAGALL, 1969-01-01

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41. LII - Results For "mcgonagall, William"
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42. RPO -- Selected Poetry Of William McGonagall (1830?-1902)
    Selected Poetry of william mcgonagall (1830?1902). mcgonagall, william. PoeticGems. 1890; Trowbridge and Esher Trowbridge, 1975. PR 4970 .M45 P6 1975 St.  
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    Extractions: Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan Attempted Assassination of the Queen The Battle of Omdurman The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir ... The Tay Bridge Disaster Born in about 1830 in Edinburgh of Irish parents, William McGonagall earned his living as a hand-loom weaver. He married Jean King on July 11, 1846. He heard, and obeyed, a call to write poetry in June 1877 and brought out a collection the next year, including a poem on the great Tay bridge in Dundee. An actor in Shakespeare plays performed locally, and a bard whom many held in contempt, McGonagall lived variously in Dundee, Perth, and Edinburgh. He travelled to London and New York, though very poor. In 1890 two volumes of his collected poems came out, many previously issued as broadsides or in newspapers. The King of Burma honoured him with the title of Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah. He died on September 29, 1902, at 5 South College Street, Edinburgh.

43. RPO -- William McGonagall : The Battle Of Omdurman
    william mcgonagall (1830?1902). Original text william mcgonagall, LastPoetic Gems, ed. James L. Smith (Dundee D. Winter, 1968) 142-44.  
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44. BBC - Legacies - Myths And Legends - Scotland - Perth And Tayside - William McGo
    One charge that may never be levelled against the interminable wordsmith is that he didnt put his all into his art. Biographical article from the BBC's local history pages.  
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45. BBC - Legacies - Myths And Legends - Scotland - Perth And Tayside - William McGo
    The incredible life story of william mcgonagall, internationally renowned asthe world s worst poet. william mcgonagall Scotland s Other National Bard,  
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    Extractions: Select here Channel Islands Guernsey Jersey England Berkshire Birmingham Black Country Bradford Bristol Cambridgeshire Cornwall Cumbria Derby Devon Essex Gloucestershire Humber Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Lincolnshire Liverpool London Manchester Norfolk North Yorkshire Northants Nottingham Oxford Shropshire Somerset South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey, Sussex Teesside Tyne Wear Wiltshire Northern Ireland Paddywhackerry or Patron? Secrets of Lough Kernan The Hound of Ulster Scotland Borders Highland Lothian North East Scotland Orkney and Shetland South West Scotland Strathclyde Western Scotland Western Isles Wales North East Wales North West Wales Mid Wales South East Wales South West Wales

46. Scottish Poet William McGonagall
    SVBanner.jpg (8465 bytes). william mcgonagall. (1830 1902). williammcgonagall is Dundee s best remembered nobody. He was a man  
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    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.

47. William McGonagall - Review - Grossly Maligned And Misunderstood
    william mcgonagall is one of the 19th century's true life tragic romantic heroes especially so because he was blissfully unaware of the fact! . Review from ciao.co.uk  
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    Extractions: Although born and died in Edinburgh, he was best known within his adopted city of Dundee. He was a hand-loom weaver by trade, and was largely self taught. In his middle age, when doubtless his employment prospects became limited by increasing mechanisation and de-skilling, he turned to poetry to keep himself and his family from the workhouse.

48. Poet: William Topaz McGonagall - All Poems Of William Topaz McGonagall
    william Topaz mcgonagall, • Poems • Comments • Resources • Stats. Poems. Page1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. . Comments on william Topaz mcgonagall,  
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49. William McGonagall: Glasgow
    Glasgow. by william mcgonagall. Pictures taken by Nick Nicholas,August 1995 Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat  
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50. The Poetry Of Scotland - The Tay Bridge Disaster By William Topaz MacGonagall, S
    The Tay Bridge Disaster. by william Topaz mcgonagall. At 7.15pm on 28thDecember 1879, The Tay Bridge was blown down while a passenger  
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    Extractions: D L Sulgrove The Tay Bridge Disaster by William Topaz McGonagall 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. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay!

51. Gouk.about.com/aboutuk/scottishculture/library/blfammcgonagall.htm?terms=mcgonag
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52. Famous Scots - William McGonagall
    Famous Scots william mcgonagall (1830-1902) Despite his reputationas the world s worst poet mcgonagall s poems are nowadays  
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    Extractions: Despite his reputation as the "world's worst poet" McGonagall's poems are nowadays read, quoted and enjoyed more than ever, although perhaps because they offer more amusement than insight. McGonagall's parents came from Ireland but they moved to Scotland where McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830, or thereabouts (some sources give 1825). McGonagall's father was a hand-loom weaver and the family moved to Paisley, then Glasgow, before settling in Dundee. Due to lack of money, William's education lasted only eighteen months but that was enough to start him onto reading and then writing. Although he trained as a hand-loom weaver like his father he, had a brief career on the stage - as Macbeth. But, as McGonagall himself said, "The most startling incident in my life was the time I discovered myself to be a poet, which was in the year 1877." He became a well-known public figure and toured Scotland giving performances of his poetry and selling copies of his poems. The fact that his audience was more amused than impressed did not seem to perturb him. He had a brief and disappointing trip to New York in 1877 but a selection of his poems were published under the title "Poetic Gems" in 1890. His self-belief in his own brilliance as a poet was unshakeable and an unsuccessful attempt to drop in to see Queen Victoria at Balmoral left him "not in the least discouraged." He still wrote "An Ode to the Queen in her Jubilee Year." MacGonagall's poems on the "Famous Tay Whale" and the "Tay Bridge Disaster" are perhaps his most famous but he also produced a great many other poems about the people, places and events of his day. His wayward rhymes, mixed scansion and choice of subject matter perhaps justify his title of worst poet of the world. And yet he is held in great affection and a memorial plaque was erected to his memory in Greyfriar's Churchyard in Edinburgh in 1999. He would have enjoyed writing a poem about that...

53. The Farewell Address Of William McGonagall At The Argyle Hall[
    The Farewell Address Of william mcgonagall at the Argyle Hall June221880. Fellow Citizens of Dundee. I now must bid farowell to ye.  
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54. Great Scotsmen
    william mcgonagall. Poet 1825-1902. william mcgonagall was born in Edinburghbut brought up in Orkney until his family moved to Dundee when he was 11.  
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    Extractions: Home MP3's Today's Joke SHOP ... Guy Aldred William McGonagall Poet - 1825-1902 "Mac Gonagall, Mac Gonagall, the worst of writers, of them all. He's known tae pen a poem or two, and through so doing gather, a fame that gets the purists goin', in somethin' o' a lather." William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh but brought up in Orkney until his family moved to Dundee when he was 11. This was his true, spiritual home and no mistake. The City that would ultimately spawn such literary classics as "The Beano", "The Dandy", "The People's Friend" and last but by no means least "The Sunday Post", is a somewhat fitting scenario for a genius such as McGonagall's. He has the somewhat dubious claim to fame of being the worst poet that Scotland, or indeed the world, has ever produced. When one examines his work, it's easy to see why. But damn, he's so bad, he's superb. We think he's an utter Superstar.

55. William McGonagall : Read Reviews And Compare Prices At Ciao.co.uk
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56. William McGonagall - Review - Great Scot
    william mcgonagall Reviews Great Scot. Overall user rating Rated by 2 Ciaomembers Tips about william mcgonagall on the web. Tips about books on the web.  
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    Extractions: I sometimes wonder how many billions of unpublished writings are floating about in Manuscript Heaven. It’s so easy to write poorly, to have your work rejected, and even easier never actually to get around to submitting something. I’ve had my share of rejection slips, and binned a lot of stuff I knew was poor. McG was born in 1825 in Dundee. He went to work as a weaver, and conceived a passion for the tragedies of Shakespeare. Convinced he was a great actor, he committed to memory great chunks of his favourite parts : Macbeth, Richard III, Hamlet and Othello, and would recite these to entertain his fellow workers. The din in Victorian mills was intense, so it’s possible that his efforts went mercifully unnoticed. Encouraged by persons malicious, he began to appear regularly on the amateur stage, where he was rapturously received. What McG never realised was that all the applause was mad glee at his absolute lack of any talent whatsoever. But worse was to come.

57. William Topaz McGonagall Definition Meaning Information Explanation
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    Extractions: Google News about your search term William Topaz McGonagall September 29 ) was a weaver, poet, and actor. Born in Edinburgh , of Irish parentage, he was working as handloom weaver in Dundee when an event occurred that was to change his life. As he was later to write: McGonagall has been widely acclaimed as the worst poet in British history. The chief criticisms of his poetry are that he is deaf to poetic metaphor and unable to scan correctly. Of the 200 or so poems that he wrote, the most famous is probably The Tay Bridge Disaster , which recounts the events of the evening of 28 December , when, during a severe gale , the Tay Rail Bridge near Dundee collapsed as a train was passing over it. Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of 1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.

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60. Colonial Wargames - Poetry - William McGonagall
    The poetry of william mcgonagall. If Rudyard Kipling was the mostnotable British poet of the end of the Nineteenth Century, then  
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    Extractions: The poetry of William McGonagall If Rudyard Kipling was the most notable British poet of the end of the Nineteenth Century, then William McGonagall must rate somewhere close behind him. Regarded by some - especially himself - as being an unrecognised genius, as well as Scotland's foremost poet, McGonagall wrote verse to celebrate every major event of his day, including Britain's colonial adventures. He has been described as being: 'A real genius, for he is the only truly memorable bad poet in our language.' The following collection of his military verse had been selected to inspire and entertain all those who hanker after a different, Victorian view of the world. I urge you read them and enjoy them, because they are, without doubt, some of the worst poetry you will ever see on the printed page. The Battle of Tel-El-Kebir The Battle of El-Teb The rebel surprise near Tamai Lines in praise of Tommy Atkins ... The relief of Mafeking 24th May 2004 © Robert George Cordery (2004)

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