[lit-ideas] Re: McGonagall o'erthrown
- From: "Judith Evans" <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:54:54 +0100
Thank *you*, Robert! I read the paper version of the story so
hadn't come across the Julia Moore link. She is rather good (bad), isn't
she?
I've now managed to look at the various pages, I'm ecstatic to see
Wordsworth on the bad poetry index.
-- David, Scotland can't win them all :)
Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Paul" <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:12 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: McGonagall o'erthrown
> Ah, Judy, thank you! Thank you! By following a link to Julia A. Moore
> (The Sweet Singer of Michigan) in the Guardian's story about bad poetry,
> I was reunited with 'Ashtabula Disaster,' which one of my teachers
> assured me was the worst poem ever written in English. It's been half
> a century since I read it last.
>
> Judith Evans wrote:
>
> > http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2182129,00.html
>
> Link:
>
> http://www.wmich.edu/english/txt/Moore/Ashtabula.html
>
> ASHTABULA DISASTER
>
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