William McGonagall (eBook, ePUB)

Collected Poems
Redaktion: Hunt, Chris; Walker, Colin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

William McGonagall was born in Edinburgh in 1830. His father was a poor hand-loom weaver, and his work took his family to Glasgow, then to Dundee. William attended school for eighteen months before the age of seven, and received no further formal education. Later, as a mill worker, he used to read books in the evening, taking great interest in Shakespeare's plays. In 1877, McGonagall suddenly discovered himself 'to be a poet'. Since then, thousands of people the world over have enjoyed the verse of Scotland's alternative national poet. This volume brings together the three famous collections - "Poetic Gems", "More Poetic Gems" and "Last Poetic Gems", and includes all the valuable autobiographical material which appeared in the original volumes. It includes all his most famous works, as well as previously unpublished poems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birlinn
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857900739
• Artikelnr.: 38448078

Autorenporträt

William Topaz McGonagall was a self-educated hand loom weaver who, in Dundee in 1877, felt the poetic muse upon him. He spent the next twenty-five years appalling and delighting audiences with his disjointed, creaky and sometimes just plain bad verse. Lines on everything from great tragedies to odes to royalty and itinerant whales flowed from his pen and have been celebrated by everyone from "The Muppets" to "Monty Python" and "The Goons." Chris Hunt is Webmaster of the standard McGonagall website.