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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Anchorman on September 27, 2019, 09:12:45 PM

Title: Remembering the (sort of) Bard.
Post by: Anchorman on September 27, 2019, 09:12:45 PM

My nation can boast some of the greatest poets; Lindsay, Ramsay, Hogg, McDairmid, McHaig, McLean...and the immortal Robert Burns. Yet on this day, surely none can compare with the unique - talent - of one who left us bereft of his genious? I give you the ode to the bard of Avon, from William Topaz McGonagall.... Read it and let the tears flow..... https://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/gems/an-address-to-shakespeare

Title: Re: Remembering the (sort of) Bard.
Post by: Gordon on September 27, 2019, 09:41:24 PM

He's very much in the so bad it is good category - mind you he'll be "remember'd for a very long time".

Title: Re: Remembering the (sort of) Bard.
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 27, 2019, 09:48:58 PM

Don't think he gets to be good. Just unforgettable like Johnson.

Title: Re: Remembering the (sort of) Bard.
Post by: Sebastian Toe on September 28, 2019, 12:39:11 AM

He was a poet but did he know it?

Title: Re: Remembering the (sort of) Bard.
Post by: Steve H on September 28, 2019, 08:03:05 AM

In 'The Book of Heroic Failures', Stephen Pile said that he was so giftedly bad that he almost backed unwittingly into genius.

Title: Re: Remembering the (sort of) Bard.
Post by: Anchorman on September 28, 2019, 11:44:53 AM

      At this juncture in this thread dedicated to the laudatory  peons   addressed to the  'bard', may I point out that, as an addition  to the annual  Burns supper  on January 25, a new item, dedicated to this inimical contributor to Scots literature - from the fair county of Ayrshire, dedicated to a worthy cause, has now become an institution.....
https://rotaryclubofayr.org/our-furst-evur-mcgonnagall-supper-22-march-2019/