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SCOUT· 28%40m·2025-08-15·History"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford · 32
William McGonagall's poems are something else. The jarring meter, the banal imagery, the awkward rhymes: they made him a laughing stock in 19th Century Scotland and are still derided to this day. How does someone get that bad at poetry? Or have we been misunderstanding McGonagall all along? See omnystudio.com/listener…
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