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The Disaster Poet
- canjobear 6y agoMore of this guy's poetry here: http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/works http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/works
- Mlller 6y agoThe occasion for “The Tay Bridge Disaster” was also the occasion for a poem by Theodor Fontane (1819–1898), which, however, is held in high regard: “Die Brück’ am Tay” German: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCck%E2%80%99_am_Tay https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCck%E2%80%99_am_Ta... Link to “Norman Barry's English translation”: http://www.johnmaynard.net/RelPoems.html http://www.johnmaynard.net/RelPoems.html A side-by-side presentation with another translation: https://lyricstranslate.com/en/die-br%C3%BCck-am-tay-when-we-shall-meet-again-bridge-over-tay.html https://lyricstranslate.com/en/die-br%C3%BCck-am-tay-when-we...
- throwanem 6y agoThank goodness! I finally understand Douglas Adams' mention of "the second worst poet in the English language" in the Hitchhiker's series, which I first read (Restaurant, anyway) around age six or so. I finally get it!
- DonaldFisk 6y agoNot so fast. While he probably did want you to think of McGonagall (who's infamous for his bad poetry), Adams wrote, "The very worst poetry of all perished along with its creator Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England in the destruction of the planet Earth." This was changed from Paul Neil Milne Johnstone of Redbridge, who complained about the use of his name and address. Paul Johnstone was a classmate of Adams and apparently did write poetry. There's an H2G2 page: https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Paula_Nancy_Millstone_Jennings https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Paula_Nancy_Millstone_Je.... Paul Johnstone biography: https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/163180 https://enacademic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/163180
- tptacek 6y agoIt's funny how many of these terrible poems sort of work if you imagine Ad-rock and MCA from the Beastie Boys rapping them back and forth.
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- kasey_junk 6y agoBoyeee