[dighton]

Oh you critics! — if an author errs in a single line
That line you’ll surely quote,
And will give it as a sample fair
Of all he ever wrote.

Great persecuted poets think alike:

And now kind friends, what I have wrote,
I hope you will pass o’er,
And not criticise as some have done,
Hitherto herebefore.

— Julia Moore, The Author’s Early Life.

[AnAmericanMother]

The great man himself:

It appears he also wrote a PLAY - which was disinterred from the Dundee city archives where many felt it should have been left to rest in peace . . .

ALREADY hailed as the world's worst poet, William McGonagall is poised to claim the title of the world's worst playwright, thanks to a newly discovered manuscript.