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"The Tay Bridge Disaster" is a poem written in 1880 by the Scottish poet William McGonagall, who has been acclaimed as the worst poet in history. [1] The poem recounts the events of the evening of 28 December 1879, when, during a severe gale , the Tay Rail Bridge at Dundee collapsed as a train was passing over it with the loss of all on board.
William McGonagall's parents, Charles and Margaret, were Irish. His Irish surname is a variation on Mag Congail, a popular name in County Donegal. [3] [4] Throughout his adult life he claimed to have been born in Edinburgh, giving his year of birth variously as 1825 [1] or 1830, [5] but his entry in the 1841 Census gives his place of birth, like his parents', as "Ireland". [6]
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The list of poems by Philip Larkin come mostly from the four volumes of poetry published during his lifetime: [1] [2] The North Ship (July 1945) The Less Deceived (November 1955, dated October) The Whitsun Weddings (February 1964) High Windows (June 1974) Philip Larkin (1922–1985) also published other poems.
[2] The book had a magical effect on many people who read it, opening their eyes from "dull" poetry to a world of accessible language and the evocative use of everyday symbolism. Leading anthologist, Neil Astley , describes how he had been reading the classic poets at school in the 1960s, and one day his teacher read from The Mersey Sound ...
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"The Hangman" is a poem written by Maurice Ogden in 1951 and first published in 1954. [1] The poem was originally published under the title "Ballad of the Hangman" in Masses and Mainstream magazine under the pseudonym "Jack Denoya", before later being "[r]evised and retitled".