Posted AT 4:17 AM EST on 31/07/07
From bad to verse
EDINBURGH — The land that gave the world Robert Burns also has the dubious honour 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 is so bad he carried an umbrella with him at all times as protection from the barrage of rotten tomatoes he faced wherever he recited.
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