"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Podcast: Cautionary Tales with Tim HarfordPublished On: Fri Aug 15 2025
Description: 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 for privacy information.
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