The Great Poets: William McGonagall

The idiosyncratic Scottish poet William Topaz McGonagall has the unusual reputation as one of the worst poets in the English language with rhymes and rhythms that produce mirth rather than wonder. His masterpiece is The Tay Bridge Disaster. Scottish-born Gregor Fisher, who starred in Love Actually and other film and TV programmes, reads the key poems and passages from the autobiography - and gets deep into character! INCLUDED IN The Great Poets - William McGonagall Tay Bridge Disaster The Famous Tay Whale The Burning of the People's Variety Theatre, Aberdeen An Escursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay The Wreck of the Steamer London while on her way to Australia Loch Ness A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay The Battle of Tel-el-Kebir A Tribute to Mr J Graham Henderson, The World's Fair Judge The City of Perth The Royal Review: August 25 1881 An Ode to the Queen on Her Jubilee Year Beecham's Pills The Faithfull Dog Fido The Albion Battleship Calamity From Reminiscences From A Brief Autobiography From A Brief Autobiography 2 From A Brief Autobiography 3