epiminondas writes:
If you’re looking for bad poetry, you came to the right place: McGonagall is your man. This stuff is so excruciatingly bad, it’s funny. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
epiminondas writes:
If you’re looking for bad poetry, you came to the right place: McGonagall is your man. This stuff is so excruciatingly bad, it’s funny. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
Irresistible stuff. The Wikipedia entry on him is pretty great. My favorite passage: someone said he was “so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius.” Given that he’s still in print after 100 years, who can argue with that?
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Ooh, thanks! Love doggerel. Recently featured some from ‘Canada’s worst poet’, James McIntyre, at my blog, here.
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Also, for more James McIntyre poetry, see the comments on that post linking a blog which specializes in cheese-related themes, about which subject McIntyre was infamous for writing.
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