The Bridge at Dundee. [A Poem on the Tay Bridge Disaster of 1879.].
Author : Harvey Justis Buntin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Harvey Justis Buntin
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Peter R. Lewis
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 49,2 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0752487639
Over 125 years ago, barely a year and a half after the Tay Railway Bridge was built, William McGonnagal composed his poem about the Tay Bridge Disaster, the poem about Britain's worst-ever civil engineering disaster. Over 80 people lost their lives in the fall of the Tay Bridge, but how did it happen? The accident reports say that high wind and poor construction were to blame, but Peter Lewis, an Open University engineering professor, tells the real story of how the bridge so spectacularly collapsed in December 1879.
Author : William McGonagall
Publisher : Orchises Press
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780914061847
Author : William McGonagall
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 1979-09
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Author : William McGonagall
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Miniature books
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Author : Charles McKean
Publisher : Granta Books (Uk)
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 37,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN :
Presenting a dramatic and scandalous story of the building of the Tay and Forth Bridges and the 19th century railway wars, this work explores the complicated reality underlying the Victorian pursuit of progress.
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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 48,96 MB
Release : 1880*
Category : Ballads, English
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Author : Kathryn Petras
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 1997-03-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0679776222
Writing very bad poetry requires talent. It helps to have a wooden ear for words, a penchant for sinking into a mire of sentimentality, and an enviable confidence that allows one to write despite absolutely appalling incompetence. The 131 poems collected in this first-of-its-kind anthology are so glaringly awful that they embody a kind of genius. From Fred Emerson Brooks' "The Stuttering Lover" to Matthew Green's "The Spleen" to Georgia Bailey Parrington's misguided "An Elegy to a Dissected Puppy", they mangle meter, run rampant over rhyme, and bludgeon us into insensibility with their grandiosity, anticlimax, and malapropism. Guaranteed to move even the most stoic reader to tears (of laughter), Very Bad Poetry is sure to become a favorite of the poetically inclined (and disinclined).
Author : Nancy Davey
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Disasters
ISBN : 9780900344558
Author : Ben Lerner
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0374712336
No art has been denounced as often as poetry. It's even bemoaned by poets: "I, too, dislike it," wrote Marianne Moore. "Many more people agree they hate poetry," Ben Lerner writes, "than can agree what poetry is. I, too, dislike it and have largely organized my life around it and do not experience that as a contradiction because poetry and the hatred of poetry are inextricable in ways it is my purpose to explore." In this inventive and lucid essay, Lerner takes the hatred of poetry as the starting point of his defense of the art. He examines poetry's greatest haters (beginning with Plato's famous claim that an ideal city had no place for poets, who would only corrupt and mislead the young) and both its greatest and worst practitioners, providing inspired close readings of Keats, Dickinson, McGonagall, Whitman, and others. Throughout, he attempts to explain the noble failure at the heart of every truly great and truly horrible poem: the impulse to launch the experience of an individual into a timeless communal existence. In The Hatred of Poetry, Lerner has crafted an entertaining, personal, and entirely original examination of a vocation no less essential for being impossible.