How to Celebrate 'The World's Worst Poet'? - washingtonpost.com

How to Celebrate 'The World's Worst Poet'? - washingtonpost.com: "The land that gave the world Robert Burns also has the dubious honor of producing the 'world's worst poet.' Now fans of the hapless William McGonagall are campaigning to put him in the pantheon of Scottish literary greats.

The late-19th-century poet's work was so bad he carried an umbrella with him at all times as protection from the barrage of rotten tomatoes he faced wherever he recited."