Articles

This is an area of the site for articles about McGonagall's life and works. Some contemporary press reports about his activities can be found in the Biography section. If you would like to submit an article for publication here, please contact the webmaster.

Awful Poet who Didn't Know It

Profile of McGonagall published in the Scotland on Sunday newspaper in 1991.

The Real McGonagall

Closely-argued article by Gord Bambrick putting forward the theory that McGonagall was a deliberate satirist and comedian, rather than the incompetent of public imagination.

McGonagall the Heroic Failure

McGonagall's two entries in Stephen Pile's Book of Heroic Failures.

In Honourandum of William McGonagall

A poem in honour of the great man, submitted by a visitor to this site.

A London Street Author, or Poet

NOT about William McGonagall, but an interesting account of the life of another (nameless) impoverished poet in Victorian Britain.