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Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
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"Genius Still Unrecognised" - The Worst Poet in the World

40 min•15 augusti 2025

William McGonagall's poems are something else. The jarring meter, the banal imagery, the awkward rhymes: they made him a laughing stock in 19th Century Scotland and are still derided to this day. How does someone get that bad at poetry? Or have we been misunderstanding McGonagall all along?

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