"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World
Podcast:Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford Published 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.