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William Topaz McGonagall lived from 1825 to 29 September 1902. He is widely celebrated as the worst poet to have written in the English language, or quite possibly in any other.

McGonagall was born in Edinburgh and spent his childhood until the age of 11 in Orkney. He then moved with his family to Dundee, the city that was to be his home until he moved to Edinburgh in 1895, where he lived above the Captains Bar in South College Street.

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Until the age of 52, in 1877, McGonagall worked as a handloom weaver, with occasional diversions into amateur dramatics, and Shakespeare in particular.

But then, according to The Autobiography of Sir William Topaz McGonagall, Poet and Tragedian, Knight of the White Elephant of Burmah:"Dame Fortune has been very kind to me by endowing me with the genius of poetry.

I remember how I felt when I received the spirit o