Poetry
May 16, 2008
Bad bard William Topaz McGonagall beats J.K. Rowling in Edinburgh auction
“Ye sons of Scotland my heart often mourns, "When I think of the treatment of Robert Burns, "Because, while living, "The people unto him were seldom giving.”
The vocabulary is poor and the rhyme excruciating but a collector paid $12,840 Friday for original works by William Topaz McGonagall, internationally celebrated as the worst poet ever to assault the English ... via CBC News
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Badness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Long live the Dundee Bard and may his work accrue all the plaudits it deserves
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Judge it!
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