McGonagall, William

McGonagall, William Links

• McGonagall Reproduction of the masthead to one of McGonagall's poetic broadsheets, together with biographical note and a clip from a radio reading of his work.
  
• Poetry Parlour McGonagall's "Brief Autobiography" together with an appreciation and some samples of his works. Part of a larger poetry site.
  
• One of God's Clumsy Innocents Appreciation and biography of the poet, with some sample poems.
  
• The Life of William Topaz McGonagall The poet's life story told in a pastiche of his own style.
  
• In Search of the World's Worst Writers Short extracts and critique of McGonagall's works.
  
• Beautiful Monikie McGonagall poem praising "as bonnie a place as ye could wish to see, and about eleven or twelve miles from bonnie Dundee"
  
• The Worst Poem of All Time: William Topaz McGonagall's "The Tay Bridge Disaster" "The absolute freefall of his bottomless barrel, best savored when read aloud with the audience joining in on the fateful chorus".
  
• Scottish Writers on the Internet: William McGonagall Concise biography and list of published works.
  
• William Topaz McGonagall Brief biography and appreciation from Just Books.
  
• McGonagall Online A tribute to the poet and tradegian which includes his autobiography as well as the complete "Poetic Gems".
  
• William McGonagall - Poet and Tragedian of Dundee Dundee City Council's page on the city's famous bard: "the world's best bad poet". Includes a facsimile of an original McGonagall manuscript.
  
• Theatre McGonagall Flash movies based on McGonagall's works.
  
• William McGonagall - Poet Concise article describing McGonagall's life and work from the BBC h2g2 site.
  
• The Time I Discovered Myself to be a Poet Analysis of a passage from McGonagall's autobiography which appears in a UK examination syllabus.
  
• William Topaz McGonagall Appreciation Society Dundee-based fan club for the poet and tradegian. Presents a good selection of his poems and links to other sites.
  
• Famous Scots - William McGonagall Short biographical article and picture of a recently erected memorial plaque.
  
• McGonagall's Military Verse Selection of poems commemorating the military actions of the British Empire - evidently one of McGonagall's favourite subjects.
  
• Burning of the Exeter Theatre A "fairly long, but delightfully atrocious" example of McGonagall's work, with comments and suggested further reading.
  
• The Forth Bridge Disaster Pastiche of McGonagall's style to satirise the recent history of the Forth Bridge.
  
• Glasgow by William McGonagall McGonagall's poem about the city, with links to modern photographs of the features he describes.
  
• Scottish Writers: William McGonagall A photograph of the poet, striking a dramatic pose with his hat and walking stick.
  
• McGonagall- World's Worst Poet? This question is answered by reproducing the text of "The Albion Battleship Calamity".
  
• The McGonagall Lexicon Large collection of "poetic gems" online, together with a chat room and a selection of links.