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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Historically InterestingBy Roger ThompsonMy copy of the book had Billy Connelly on the front cover ... which is a shame , as a pic. of the bard himself would've been more appropriate . As to the poems ... well they are pretty awful ! Little wonder an inn-keeper threw peas at the man to rid him , lucky that turnips weren't on the menu . The poems do have an interesting look at life in the 1800's . This is real life , the everyday mishaps and disasters , the loves and losses , of the " ordinary " folk . And as such , some poems are deeply moving by their content . Worth reading ... but only once , in an average life-time !7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Mickle rhymerBy SuetGreat Bard of Tay! 'tis harder than it lookTo pen the like of what is written in this book,Which I venture to say without the least fear of rebukeWill not for a very long time be overtook.George Orwell identified good bad poetry such as Kipling's. McGonagall's is bad bad poetry - so bad it's good (and quite inimitable). There is a kind of anti-genius here. He could write vivid and engaging prose in naive style, but he resorted to prose only to introduce his volumes of verse. 'Poetic Gems' is the first of three volumes he produced in the 1870s and 80s, containing among other unprovoked assaults on Euterpe his famous paean 'The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay' and his even more famous lament when the bridge fell down shortly afterwards. Unkind readers have used the word disaster for both, and some have put two and two together.One thing you can be sure of: he never consciously wrote an ironic line. With the right publicity, he could play big in Middle America.Fellow-citizens of ,Isn't it really very niceTo think of James Scrymgeour tryingTo rescue fallen creatures from the paths of vice?Well, I don't know; but save one for me, Jimmy.

William McGonagall was known as the Greatest Bad Verse Writer of his age, but was sustained throughout his career as by an invincible belief in his own genius. 'The Disaster', 'Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie', and 'Attempted Assassination of the Queen' all passed into recorded Victorian literature and are reproduced in this collection. McGonagall was unrecognised in his own lifetime, but how has many thousands of admirers around the world.

'Even a dour literary world such as 19th-century Scotland needs its own Don Quixote and McGonagall fitted the bill.' David Shearing, Yorkshire PostAbout the AuthorWilliam Topaz McGonagall was the son of an Irish weaver and spent his life in Dundee as a handloom weaver by day and a poet by night. He attracted a certain following with his readings in public houses and his broadsheets of topical verse. He died in 1902.Noted actor and stand-up comedian, is a lover of poetry and a devoted fan of William McGonagall.

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