Jul 25, 2018
"Truly, the tree yields bad fruit."
Meet William McGonagall, the worst poet in the English language, and his exquisite Address to Shakespeare.
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The website for the podcast is https://podcastshakespeare.com/. On the website, you can find an evolving bibliography.
Links mentioned:
McGonagall Online: A one-stop shop for the life and poets of this second Bard"
The real Tay Bridge Disaster chronicled on Wikipedia
McGonagall on Twitter
Clips:
Sergei Prokofiev, "Montagues and Capulets", from Romeo and Juliet (ballet), 1935
Claude Debussy, Prélude #11 - La danse de Puck played by Daniel Barenboim