McGonagall’s poetry is undeniably dreadful, always sinking into new depths just when you think you have hit rock bottom. It is this multi-faceted awfulness which makes his work so memorably funny. Much of the humour in his verse is created by the magnificent denial of meter, rhyme and scansion.
Ye sons of Great Britain, I think no shame
To write in praise of brave General Graham!
Whose name will be handed down to posterity
without any stigma,
Because, at the battle of El-Teb
He defeated Osman Digna.
’The Battle of El-Teb (1884)’
This edition includes his most famous works - `The Tay Bridge Disaster', ’Death of Lord and Lady Dalhousie’, and ’The Demon Drink’. Verses are grouped into seven different thematic sections, with a brief introduction, background setting and biographical insights.
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