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	William Topaz McGonagall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Topaz McGonagall (1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish weaver, actor, and poet.
		The memory of McGonagall was resurrected by comedian Spike Milligan.
		William Topaz McGonagall's name was also inspiration for the name of Minerva McGonagall, a fictional character in J.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Topaz_McGonagall (751 words)

	William Topaz McGonagall
		William Topaz McGonagall (1825 September 29, 1902) was a weaver, poet, and actor.
		Born in Edinburgh, of Irish parentage, he was working as handloom weaver[?] in Dundee when an event occurred that was to change his life.
		The memory of McGonagall was resurrected by the Irish comedian Spike Milligan.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/wi/William_McGonagall.html (212 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/William Topaz McGonagall
		William Topaz McGonagall (1825–September 29, 1902) was a weaver, actor, and poet.
		McGonagall also considered himself an actor, although Mr Giles' Theatre, Dundee would only let him perform the title role in Macbeth if he paid for the privilege in advance.
		Although the play ended with Macbeth's dead at the hands of Macduff, McGonagall believed that the actor playing Macduff was trying to upstage him, and refused to die.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/William_Topaz_McGonagall (611 words)

	William Topaz McGonagall: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Topaz McGonagall (1825–September 29, 1902) was a weaver (weaver: Finch-like African and Asian colonial birds noted for their elaborately woven nests), actor (actor: A theatrical performer), and poet (poet: A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)).
		McGonagall has been widely acclaimed as the worst poet (poet: A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)) in British (British: The people of Great Britain) history.
		McGonagall also considered himself an actor, although Mr Giles' Theatre, Dundee would only let him perform the title role in Macbeth (Macbeth: King of Scotland (died in 1057)) if he paid for the privilege in advance.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/william_topaz_mcgonagall1 (1007 words)

	McGonagall
		William McGonagall (1825?-1902) is regarded by many to be the "world's worst poet." After spending the first half century of his life as a mere handloom weaver and amateur Shakespearean actor in
		McGonagall also appears to have fallen victim to numerous hoaxes, in which he was crowned with mock honours, such as "Sir Topaz, Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah," a title which he thereafter attached to the poems he peddled on the streets.
		As if McGonagall's life story is not ironic enough, his style of writing and the records of his bizarre performances leave us with the portrait of a truly hilarious individual.
	www.geocities.com /williamtopazmcgonagall (279 words)

	McGonagall Online
		William Topaz McGonagall, poet and tragedian of Dundee, has been widely hailed as the writer of the worst poetry in the English language.
		McGonagall left us several accounts of his eventful life, all of which are presented here.
		I certify that William McGonagall has for some time been known to me. I have heard him speak, he has a strong proclivity for the elocutionary department, a strong voice, and great enthusiasm.
	www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk (318 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Scotland \| Tribute to the best bad bard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Topaz McGonagall, the world's best-known bad poet, is to be honoured by his native city of Dundee.
		McGonagall, who gained fame for his mutilation of meter and reckless approach to rhyme, will be remembered in a public art project commissioned by Dundee's City of Discovery Campaign 100 years after his death.
		In 1999, the campaign and the William Topaz McGonagall Appreciation Societies of Dundee and Edinburgh erected a plaque in the capital's Greyfriars Kirkyard to mark his final resting place in 1999.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/scotland/2060054.stm (429 words)

	McGonagall, William category on BookFizz UK
		"William McGonagall is one of the 19th century's true life tragic romantic heroes - especially so because he was blissfully unaware of the fact!".
		McGonagall is feted by his adopted city of Dundee, 100 years after his death.
		William McGonagall - Poet and Tragedian of Dundee
	dir.bookfizz.co.uk /Authors/M/McGonagall,_William (564 words)

	Scotland Magazine : Issue 5 :: William McGonagall: White Elephant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		McGonagall lived for much of his life in Dundee, and according to the Director of Dundee’s ‘City of Discovery Campaign’, Petra Kydd, “we’ve been working to raise awareness of McGonagall and his poetry in recent years, and the amount of interest abroad is crazy.
		The year 1878 saw McGonagall make the long walk to the royal family’s Highland residence of Balmoral on Deeside to see Victoria, but he was refused entry by the Lodge Keeper, who took exception to his description of himself as ‘Poet to Her Majesty’.
		McGonagall never doubted the sincerity of even the most outrageous flattery, and was the unwitting victim of a number of hoaxes.
	www.scotlandmag.com /issue/5/scottish_poets/169 (1581 words)

	The Great McGonagall (William Topaz McGonagall): Scotland's Worst Poet. Brigadoonery Canada, by Neil Harding McAlister ...
		Given the abysmal quality of McGonagall’s work (of which this examples is, unfortunately, entirely representative) it seems scarcely credible that more than two hundred of his dreadful compositions found their way into print during the perpetrator’s lifetime!
		McGonagall did achieve a degree of local renown around Dundee as a thespian, chewing up the scenery in the role of Macbeth, and appearing in other Shakespearean tragedies.
		Contemporary newspapers described how the “poet” (their quotation marks, not mine!) was greeted with hoots of derision and showers of missiles including eggs, herrings, rotten potatoes and chunks of stale bread when he appeared for a reading at a circus in Paisley, Scotland.
	www.durham.net /~neilmac/great.htm (1384 words)

	World Arts Literature Authors M McGonagall, William (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Grossly Maligned and Misunderstood - "William McGonagall is one of the 19th century's true life tragic romantic heroes - especially so because he was blissfully unaware of the fact!".
		William McGonagall: Quixote of the North - Article and appreciation of the "teetotal twit who thought he was Tennyson", by poet W. Herbert.
		William McGonagall: Scotland's Other National Bard - "One charge that may never be levelled against the interminable wordsmith is that he didnt put his all into his art." Biographical article from the BBC's local history pages.
	internetintl.com /world/Arts/Literature/Authors/M/McGonagall,_William (734 words)

	McGonagall Online: Autobiographical Writings
		McGonagall left us several accounts of his life which were published in his volumes of "Poetic Gems".
		What appears to be an early account by McGonagall which concentrates on his family and his childhood in the Orkney islands.
		McGonagall's account of a typically frustrating reading tour written for a Dundee newspaper in 1879.
	www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk /life (436 words)

	Poet: William Topaz McGonagall - All poems of William Topaz McGonagall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Poet: William Topaz McGonagall - All poems of William Topaz McGonagall
		Free Poetry E-Book: 206 poems of William Topaz McGonagall
		William Topaz McGonagall was born of rather poor Irish parents in Edinburgh, Scotland, in March 1825.
	www.poemhunter.com /william-topaz-mcgonagall/poet-6601 (379 words)

	Anecdote - William Topaz McGonagall - Bard of Bad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 2002, the poet William Topaz McGonagall was honoured by his native Dundee, whose river inspired McGonagall to write "The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay".
		Not everyone was delighted, however, when the first verse of the poem (below) was etched in the pavement along the north bank of the river on the newly-named McGonagall Walk.
		McGonagall is widely regarded as the worst poet in literary history.
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=6985 (397 words)

	William Topaz McGonagall-Poet and Tragedian
		McGonagall had passed middle life before he got the idea he had been visited by the muse.
		All his life he was the butt of cruel jokes, but his faith in himself could not be shaken.
		The William Topaz McGonagall Appreciation Society is based in Mennies Speedwell Bar, 165/167 Perth Road, Dundee, Scotland.
	www.taynet.co.uk /users/mcgon (406 words)

	Worst poet in the world - Deccan Herald - Internet Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Topaz McGonagall holds the title for the most well-known Bad Poet.
		This Scot was born in Dundee in 1825 and died in 1902 and enjoyed enormous popularity— though not commercial success— owing to his extremely tortuous verse which violated every formal norm of poetry.
		Apparently, “McGonagall had once been spotted leaving a performance with what appeared to be a ‘satiric smile’ sneaking out from the shadow of his egg-spattered cleric’s hat.”
	www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/aug212005/artic1045362005820.asp (588 words)

	William McGonagall Life Stories, Books, & Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William McGonagall, favorite son and official "Best Bad Poet" of Dundee Scotland.
		McGonagall was a middle-aged weaver when he heard his muse; today he is a cult figure, his many collections of poetry translated into over a dozen languages and selling well to those wishing to investigate a reputation for "the worst poetry ever written, in any language, at any time."
		At one end of the range is the world's "Best Bad Poet," William McGonagall; at the other is poet laureate Tennyson's "In Memoriam"; somewhere in the middle is Robert Service, whose hobo-hero chooses New Year's Eve and McGuffy's Saloon for his last, fatal memory of Ethel.
	www.todayinliterature.com /biography/william.mcgonagall.asp (589 words)

	The Worst Poem of All Time: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Topaz McGonagall's " The Tay Bridge Disaster" (à cette adresse d'autres poèmes de notre héros)
		At the Dundee City Council site, there is a page claiming William McGonagall as their own Poet and Tragedian of Dundee, as well as a copy of his handwritten manuscript of " Bonnie Dundee."
		The William Topaz McGonagall Appreciation Society has lots of McGonagall poems and a library of books by and about McGonagall.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/annemariegoossens/scomcg.htm (585 words)

	DIRECTORY - LITERATURE WILLIAM MCGONAGALL - ARTS AND LITERATURE WILLIAM MCGONAGALL
		»Great Scotsmen - William McGonagall - Humorous tribute from "the alternative voice of Scotland".
		Laurie was partly responsible for bringing McGonagall to a wider audience in the 1960's
		»Scottish Writers: William McGonagall - A photograph of the poet, striking a dramatic pose with his hat and walking stick.
	www.themusichype.com /dir/Arts/Literature/Authors/M/McGonagall,_William (781 words)

	The Great McGonagall (1974) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By the time Milligan was well enough to try his own hand at film acting, it was already the 1970s and he had become passe.
		His biggest stab at cinematic glory, "The Great McGonagall," reveals he might have gotten out of the looney bin a little too early.
		"The Great McGonagall" no doubt amused its makers, who thought it would be funny to send up a bad poet endlessly mocked by fate and society, but on screen it's no "Ed Wood" of poesy.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0071579 (708 words)

	THE WILLIAM TOPAZ McGONAGALL AWARD 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		We are all aware of how much hard work goes on behind the scenes into giving birth to such obfuscational bull's droppings and how painful it can be on the sphincteral muscles to pass such an unnatural phenomenon.
		(Did you actually study under William Topaz McGonagall by any chance?) (2) This means a kind of immanence then it's a removal of metaphysics understood as a transcendental absolute as an ontological cut between some alleged beyng and beings.
		We are happy to inform you that you are now entitled to place the initials: MP [McGonagall Prizewinner] after your name.
	www.soca.ecu.edu.au /pipermail/heidegger/2004q4/022998.html (413 words)

	Overview of William Topaz McGonagall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An eccentric figure, born in Edinburgh, the son of an Irish weaver.
		McGonagall lived most of his life in Dundee.
		He lies buried in a pauper's grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh, although a memorial was erected nearby by the McGonagall Society of Dundee in 1999.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/people/famousfirst234.html (89 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| December 28 \| William Topaz McGonagall childermas ...
		Herod perceiving that he was deluded by the wise men, was exceeding angry; and sending killed all the men children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the borders thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.
		Mary Cameron (later known as Dame Mary Gilmore) introduced him to William Lane’s movement and he not only became active in it, his office at 111 Elizabeth St, Sydney became the headquarters and from 1892-3 he edited New Australia.
		Just before Head and his family were due to leave for Paraguay, his infant son Rowland was lost and never found in the bush at Gippsland, Victoria where his wife was visiting relatives.
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/dec28.html (3329 words)

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	Blethers.com - Stuart Mudie's weblog - William Topaz McGonagall
		Blethers.com - Stuart Mudie's weblog - William Topaz McGonagall
		Dundee's most famous poet came up in conversation at work today.
		The design of this site is based on two templates, one by Book of Styles and the other by Not (that) ugly.
	blethers.com /weblog/2002/11/william_topaz_mcgonagall.php (295 words)

	Ø Wilson's Almanac free daily ezine \| Book of Days \| September 29 \| Michaelmas St Michael William Topaz ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Topaz McGonagall, who died on September 29, 1902; often claimed to be the world’s ‘best bad poet’; Autobiography
		And all that can be said is both armies ran away.
		William Topaz McGonagall; ' The Battle of Sheriffmuir'
	www.wilsonsalmanac.com /book/sep29.html (3651 words)

	William Topaz McGonagall Night
		William Topaz McGonagall was the greatest of all Scottish poets and passed away in September 1902.
		We had a party to celebrate his great works.
		The works of McGonagall can be found on www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk
	www.vord.net /friends/mcgonagall/mcgonagall_02.html (228 words)

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