Write!" The note by the Weekly News editor only helped to solidify the conviction already forming in the mind of William Topaz McGonagall that his vocation was poetry. He followed it with heroic ...

As every Scottish school child knows, William Topaz McGonagall, is a 19th century poet whose literary efforts are held up in classrooms as examples of how never, ever, to write. McGonagall was ...

He was routinely described as the worst poet ever to commit pen to paper but William McGonagall bashed on for 25 years undeterred by his critics. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

The Scottish poet Sir William McGonagall wrote prolifically in the 1800s, and was widely hailed as one of the worst in the world—his audiences would even throw rotten fish and produce at him ...

EDINBURGH, Scotland -- Like many poets, William Topaz McGonagall struggled for his art. Against all odds, and despite evidence to the contrary, the former weaver spent more than two decades in the ...

And the city of Dundee, Scotland, is marking the centennial, despite the fact that McGonagall is widely considered the world's worst poet. NPR's Robert Siegel talk to the head of the English ...