Beautiful Railway Bridge
Title | Beautiful Railway Bridge PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Lewis |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2012-05-30 |
Genre | Transportation |
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.
The Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay
Title | The Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay PDF eBook |
Author | Peter R. Lewis |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 219 |
Release | 2012-05-30 |
Genre | 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.
The Tay Bridge Disaster and Other Poetic Gems
Title | The Tay Bridge Disaster and Other Poetic Gems PDF eBook |
Author | William McGonagall |
Publisher | Orchises Press |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780914061847 |
The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, The Newport Railway, The Tay Bridge Disaster and an Address to the New Tay Bridge
Title | The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, The Newport Railway, The Tay Bridge Disaster and an Address to the New Tay Bridge PDF eBook |
Author | William McGonagall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | |
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Poetic Gems
Title | Poetic Gems PDF eBook |
Author | William McGonagall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | Poets, Scottish |
ISBN |
Very Bad Poetry
Title | Very Bad Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Kathryn Petras |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 145 |
Release | 1997-03-25 |
Genre | 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).
The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, and Other Disasters
Title | The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay, and Other Disasters PDF eBook |
Author | William McGonagall |
Publisher | |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Poetry |
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