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Discovering his poetic ability in 1877, William McGonagall has remained one of the most popular of Scotland's alternative poets. This collection of his work includes poems from "Poetic Gems", "More Poetic Gems" and "Last Poetic Gems". Also included is autobiographical material which appeared in the original volumes of his work as well as "The Tay Bridge Disaster" and "The Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie". ... Read more

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The best bad poet in the English language!
McGonagall was a 19th century Scottish poet,
Who had no talent, only he didn't know it.
He wrote several volumes of terrible verse
That read like this one, only much worse.
Like whiskey, his works are best in moderation to take,
For too much at once will cause a great headache.
But if you delight in reading verse that is awful,
Then by all means peruse this book by McGonagall. ... Read more

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Many poets vie for this title, but William McGonagall of Scotland might be the worst poet the world has ever seen.All the poems in this hideous collection deal with either deaths of famous people or catastrophes McGonagall read about in the papers.To read McGonagall is to understand that some bad poetry can actually make your eyes bleed! ... Read more

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the worst poet on earth
it was rather odd.the guy seemed to have an unusually obsession with death and disasters.but over all i found it hilarious. ... Read more

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Chapters: Sean Connery, William Mcgonagall, Tony Mcmanus, Carol Ann Duffy, James Connolly, Billy Connolly, George Galloway, Susan Boyle, Kt Tunstall, Arthur Conan Doyle, Owen Coyle, Ray Houghton, Philip Murray, Frankie Boyle, Gerry Rafferty, Bernie Slaven, Coatbridge Irish, James Mccarthy, Pearse Hutchinson, Gerard Butler, Aiden Mcgeady, Dick Gaughan, Irish-Scots, Margaret Skinnider, Willie Gallacher, Tommy Coyne, Gray O'brien, Thomas Winning, Joseph Devine, Mary Mcalister, Rosemary Mckenna, James Maley, William Crozier, Pat Crerand, Pat Doherty, Willie Maley, Jimmy Mcgrory, Eddie Mcateer, James O'brien, Paddy Tunney, Glen Daly, Jimmy Wray, David O'hara, Denis Devlin, Danny Hegan, Sean Wight, Ryan O'leary, Charlie Gallagher, Charles Carrigan, James Dryburgh, Tom Maley, Neil Connery, John Hegarty, Brian Hegarty. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 331. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, author and broadcaster who was a Member of Parliament from 1987 to 2010. He is known for his anti-war views. He was formerly a Labour MP, first for Glasgow Hillhead, and later for Glasgow Kelvin, before his expulsion from the party in October 2003, and subsequently becoming a founding member of the Respect Party. Galloway represented Bethnal Green and Bow in the 2005 parliament. In the 2010 election, Galloway unsuccessfully contested the parliamentary seat of Poplar and Limehouse. Galloway is also known for his vigorous campaigns in favour of the Palestinians in the Arab-Israeli conflict. He attempted to both overturn economic sanctions against Iraq in the 1990s and early 2000s, and to avert the 2003 invasion. He is also known for a speech he gave before the President of Iraq Saddam Hussein, in which he appeared to praise the dictator, altho...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18247133 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Murray Mccheyne, William Auld, Alexander Wilson, William Mcgonagall, James Macpherson, Hugh Macdiarmid, Alasdair Gray, Robert Burns, Ossian, Michael Bruce, Carol Ann Duffy, William Sharp, Sorley Maclean, James Hogg, George Buchanan, Aneurin, Thomas le Rhymer, John Burnside, Norman Maccaig, William Falconer, Ian Hamilton Finlay, James Thomson, Ron Butlin, Edwin Morgan, Thomas Campbell, Johanna Baillie, George Macbeth, Allan Cunningham, William Drummond D'hawthornden, Thomas Brown, Robert Fergusson, John Barbour, John Armstrong. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Sir Walter Scott, 1 baronnet d'Abbotsford (15 août 1771 à Édimbourg - 21 septembre 1832 à Abbotsford) est un poète et écrivain écossais. Avocat de formation, antiquaire par goût, il parcourt l'Écosse à la recherche de son passé. Au tournant du et du siècles, il se lance dans la littérature, publiant des textes anciens (Sir Tristrem) ou appartenant à la tradition populaire (dans Les Chants de ménestrels de la frontière écossaise) autant que des poèmes de son cru, comme La Dame du lac. Puis, devant la gloire montante de Lord Byron, il se tourne vers le roman écossais, marqué par le succès de Waverley, avant d'évoluer vers le roman historique, où il brille notamment avec Ivanhoé et Quentin Durward. L'un des plus célèbres auteurs écossais avec David Hume de Godscroft, David Hume, Adam Smith, Robert Burns ou Robert Louis Stevenson, il est traditionnellement surnommé le « Magicien du Nord » (Wizard of the North). Il est également, avec Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley ou Keats, l'une des plus illustres figures du romantisme britannique. Père du roman historique, il a contribué à forger une image r...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: James Hutton, Colin Maclaurin, William Mcgonagall, Thomas M'crie the Elder, William Adam, James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, George Buchanan, Allan Ramsay, John Mylne, Alexander Henderson, James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, Captain John Porteous, Francis Charteris, James Craig, George Mackenzie, Duncan Ban Macintyre, Henry Mackenzie, John Adam, William Carstares, Robert Mylne, William Robertson, Thomas Ruddiman, Alexander Webster, Andrew Lauder, Walter Ruddiman, George Watson, Sir John Lauder, 3rd Baronet, William Creech, Sir Alexander Lauder, 4th Baronet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Thomas M'Crie (November 1772 August 5, 1835) was a Scottish historian, writer, and preacher born in the town of Duns in November 1772. He was the eldest of a family of four sons and three daughters. His father was a manufacturer and merchant of Dunse, and lived to witness the literary celebrity of his son, as his death did not occur until 1828. Thomas M'Crie was born and nursed in the class of Secession called "Anti-burghers" during the time when it still retained much of the primitive earnestness and simplicity of the old days of the covenant. Upon being sent to the parish school, young M'Crie soon became not only an apt scholar, but distinguished for applying the habits of hard work in which he would later employ in his historical and antiquarian research. This progress, however, was somewhat alarming to his cautious father, who saw no reason for impoverishing a whole family to make his first-born a finished scholar. Had these paternal purposes been carried out, perhaps the future biographer of John Knox and Andrew Melville would have become nothing better than a thriving Berwickshire store-keeper, or a prosperous mercantile adventurer in London. But k...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6857429 ... Read more

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Chapters: William Mcgonagall, Brian Molko, Dudley D. Watkins, George Armitstead, 1st Baron Armitstead, Eddie Thompson, Jimmy Shand, Earl of Dundee, Geoffrey Hayes, David Law, Viscount of Dundee. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 49. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825 29 September 1902) was a Scottish weaver, actor, amateur poet, and performance artist. His performance art centered on his own belief that his verse showed a high degree of verbal skill and talent. Groups throughout Scotland engaged him to make recitations from his works; these performances drew large audiences which responded enthusiastically to McGonagall's poetic lines. Contemporary descriptions of these performances indicate that many of these listeners were appreciating McGonagall's skill as a comic music hall character. Collections of his verse continue in popularity, with several volumes available today. Although both born and dying in Greyfriars Parish, Edinburgh he is almost solely linked to Dundee. He was born to Irish parents in Edinburgh, but later McGonagall moved north, and was working as a handloom weaver in Dundee, Scotland when an event occurred that changed his life. As he was to write: He wrote his first poem An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan, which showed the hallmarks that would characterise his later work. Gilfillan commented, "Shakespeare never wrote anything like this." McGonagall has been 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. In the hands of lesser artists, this might generate merely dull, uninspiring verse. However, McGonagall's fame stems from the humorous effects these shortcomings generate. The inappropriate rhythms, weak vocabulary, and il...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=33612 ... Read more

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Chapters: Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, James I of Scotland, William Mcgonagall, Thomas the Rhymer, George Macdonald, Charles Sorley, Sorley Maclean, Andrew Lang, Joanna Baillie, Carol Ann Duffy, Alexander Barclay, Blind Harry, Angus Calder, Lady Anne Barnard, Douglas Dunn, Robert Burns, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Sadi Ranson, Robert Henryson, Hector Macneill, George Buchanan, Naomi Mitchison, Duncan Macgregor Crerar, Ivor Cutler, Duncan Glen, Muriel Spark, Edwin Morgan, William Drummond of Hawthornden, Robert Fergusson, Robert Crawford, James Hogg, Thomas Campbell, Pearse Hutchinson, Jamie Macpherson, Hugh Macdiarmid, Lewis Spence, James Macpherson, Alasdair Gray, Andrew Macdonald, James Thomson, William Dunbar, Edwin Muir, David Daiches, John Struthers, Norman Maccaig, Alexander Montgomerie, Rhoda Bulter, Henry Brougham Farnie, Patrick Hamilton, John Wilson, Sheena Blackhall, Michael Bruce, William Motherwell, Kenneth White, Eliza Rennie, George Mackay Brown, W. S. Graham, Charles Neaves, Derick Thomson, William Auld, John Stuart Blackie, Huchoun, Iain Crichton Smith, John Home, Molly Harrower, Walter Kennedy, Jackie Kay, William Sharp, Duncan Ban Macintyre, William Mercer, Robert Williams Buchanan, William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, Kate Clanchy, George Sutherland Fraser, John Henry Mackay, Alison Cockburn, Robert Tannahill, Alexander Gray, Aneirin, Robert Mclellan, Andrew Young, William Lauder, John Sterling, Ruthven Todd, Robert Murray M'cheyne, Henry Francis Lyte, George Macbeth, Alexander Wilson, Hamish Henderson, Florentius Volusenus, Norman Cameron, Anne Bannerman, John William Mackail, William Fowler, Marriott Edgar, Janet Hamilton, James Beattie, Robert Pollok, Tom Hubbard, James Melville, Vagaland, Robert Graham of Gartmore, Haldane Burgess, Thomas Pringle, Richard Price, Don Paterson, Douglas Young, Iain Lom, Alexander Anderson, Alan Jackson, Robert Garioch, Thomas Craig, Alexander Smi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=26444 ... Read more