William McGonagall (March 1825 to 29 September 1902), also recorded as William Topaz McGonagall, was a Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor who won notoriety as an extremely bad poet with no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work. Open Library lists 62 works under his name, led by Poems, and files them under the subjects Poetry, History, Scotland, Victoria 1837-1901, Great Britain, English literature and Dundee (Scotland). His verse is therefore catalogued as popular occasional poetry about events and places of his own day, and his page belongs with the study of doggerel as a genre.
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"birth_date": "March 1825"
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"death_date": "29 September 1902"
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A Scottish weaver, doggerel poet and actor.
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