The Book of Heroic Failures
The Book of Heroic Failures, written by Stephen Pile in 1979, is a book written in celebration of human inadequacy in all its forms. Entries include William McGonagall, a notoriously bad poet, and Teruo Nakamura, a soldier of the Imperial Japanese Army who fought for Japan in World War II until 1974.
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William McGonagall was a Scottish poet and public performer. He gained notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work.
William McGonagall
Memorial to William McGonagall in Greyfriars Kirkyard
Original Tay Bridge (from the north).
Original Tay Bridge (from the south) the day after the disaster.