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$12,840
What a collector in Scotland paid Friday for 35 works by William Topaz McGonagall, considered the worst poet ever to assault the English language. In the collection, which McGonagall self-published in the 1890s, he rambles about everything from a theater fire to women’s suffrage.
“An Ode to the Immortal Bard of Ayr, Robert Burns” :
Ye sons of Scotland my heart often mourns,
When I think of the treatment of Robert Burns,
Because, while living,
The people unto him were seldom giving.
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