Whose most famous poem is 'The Tay Bridge Disaster of 1880'?
"over. The entire train fell into the firth, with the loss of 75 passengers and train crew. The event was commemorated in a poem, The Tay Bridge Disaster (1880), written by William McGonagall, a notoriously unskilled Scottish poet. The critical response to his article was enhanced as he had previously written two poems celebrating the strength and certain immortality of the Tay Bridge. A second much more well received poem was published in the same year by the German writer Theodor Fontane. A. J. Cronin's first novel, ""Hatter's Castle"" (1931), includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge Disaster, and the"
"William McGonagall William Topaz McGonagall (March 1825 – 29 September 1902) was a Scottish weaver, poet and actor. He won notoriety as an extremely bad poet who exhibited no recognition of, or concern for, his peers' opinions of his work. He wrote about 200 poems, including ""The Tay Bridge Disaster"" and ""The Famous Tay Whale"", which are widely regarded as some of the worst in English literature. Groups throughout Scotland engaged him to make recitations from his work, and contemporary descriptions of these performances indicate that many listeners were appreciating McGonagall's skill as a comic music hall character. Collections of"
"Scottish author A. J. Cronin, includes a scene involving the Tay Bridge disaster, and the 1942 filmed version of the book dramatically recreates the bridge's catastrophic collapse. The bridge collapse also figures prominently in Barbara Vine's 2002 novel ""The Blood Doctor"". Tay Bridge disaster During a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a train from Wormit to Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard. The bridge—designed by Sir Thomas Bouch—used lattice girders supported by iron piers, with cast iron columns and wrought iron cross-bracing. The piers were narrower and their cross-bracing was"
"The Bridge of Sighs (poem) ""The Bridge of Sighs"" is a famous poem of 1844 by Thomas Hood concerning the suicide of a homeless young woman who threw herself from Waterloo Bridge in London. Although Thomas Hood (1799–1845) is usually regarded as a humorous poet, towards the end of his life, when he was on his sick bed, he wrote a number of poems commenting on contemporary poverty. These included ""The Song of the Shirt"", ""The Bridge of Sighs"" and ""The Song of the Labourer"". ""The Bridge of Sighs"" is particularly well-known because of its novel meter, complex three syllable"
"now too frail to walk the streets selling his poems, donations from friends, as ever, kept him afloat. He died penniless in 1902 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh. A grave-slab installed to his memory in 1999 is inscribed: Additionally, a plaque above 5 South College Street in Edinburgh shows an image of McGonagall, and bears the inscription: ""The Tay Bridge Disaster"" has been widely reproduced, and recounts the events of the evening of 28 December 1879, when, during a severe gale, the Tay Rail Bridge near Dundee collapsed as a train was passing"
"(Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey). The poem was also illustrated in a bas-relief on Hood's tomb. Former Procul Harum guitarist Robin Trower released a certified Gold album of the same name with the title track song ""Bridge of Sighs"" in 1974 The Bridge of Sighs (poem) ""The Bridge of Sighs"" is a famous poem of 1844 by Thomas Hood concerning the suicide of a homeless young woman who threw herself from Waterloo Bridge in London. Although Thomas Hood (1799–1845) is usually regarded as a humorous poet, towards the end of his life, when he was on his sick bed, he wrote"
"Thomas Hood Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) was an English poet, author and humorist, best known for poems such as ""The Bridge of Sighs"" and ""The Song of the Shirt"". Hood wrote regularly for ""The London Magazine"", ""Athenaeum"", and ""Punch"". He later published a magazine largely consisting of his own works. Hood, never robust, lapsed into invalidism by the age of 41 and died at the age of 45. William Michael Rossetti in 1903 called him ""the finest English poet"" between the generations of Shelley and Tennyson. Hood was the father of playwright and humorist Tom"
"Ernest Thayer Ernest Lawrence Thayer (; August 14, 1863 – August 21, 1940) was an American writer and poet who wrote the poem ""Casey"" (or ""Casey at the Bat""), which is ""the single most famous baseball poem ever written"" according to the Baseball Almanac, and ""the nation’s best-known piece of comic verse—a ballad that began a native legend as colorful and permanent as that of Johnny Appleseed or Paul Bunyan."" Thayer was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, and raised in nearby Worcester. He graduated ""magna cum laude"" in philosophy from Harvard University in 1885, where he had been editor of the"
"Tay Bridge disaster During a violent storm on Sunday 28 December 1879, the first Tay Rail Bridge collapsed as a train from Wormit to Dundee passed over it, killing all aboard. The bridge—designed by Sir Thomas Bouch—used lattice girders supported by iron piers, with cast iron columns and wrought iron cross-bracing. The piers were narrower and their cross-bracing was less extensive and robust than on previous similar designs by Bouch. Bouch had sought expert advice on wind loading when designing a proposed rail bridge over the Firth of Forth; as a result of that advice he had made no explicit"
"Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, ""Timbuktu"". He published his first solo collection of poems, ""Poems Chiefly Lyrical"" in 1830. ""Claribel"" and ""Mariana"", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included in this volume. Although decried by some critics as overly sentimental, his"
"For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.</poem> Crossing the Bar ""Crossing the Bar"" is an 1889 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It is considered that Tennyson wrote it in elegy; the poem has a tone of finality and the narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the ""sandbar"" between river of life, with its outgoing ""flood"", and the ocean that lies beyond [death], the ""boundless deep"", to which we return. Tennyson is believed"
"ideas of Robert Bridges is evident. F. T. Prince died in Southampton in 2003. F. T. Prince Frank Templeton Prince (13 September 1912 – 7 August 2003) was a British poet and academic, known generally for his best-known poem ""Soldiers Bathing"", written during the Second World War in 1942, which has been frequently included in anthologies. He was born in Kimberley, South Africa. His father Henry (Harry) Prince (formerly Prinz) was from the East End of London, of Dutch-Jewish descent, while his mother was Scottish. He was educated at the Christian Brothers College in Kimberley, then Balliol College, Oxford. He"
"history, Hayne preserved Timrod's poems and edited them into a collection that was published in 1872 and that presented such historically important poems as ""The Cotton Boll"" and ""Ode Sung On The Occasion Of Decorating The Graves Of The Confederate Dead"". Timrod now has the greater reputation as a poet, while Hayne is known more for his role as an editor and literary critic than as a poet. Timrod has continued to influence other modern Southern writers, including the poet Allen Tate, whose most famous poem, ""Ode to the Confederate Dead"", owes a great deal to Timrod's similarly titled poem."
"The Convergence of the Twain ""The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the ""Titanic"")"" is a poem by Thomas Hardy, published in 1912. The poem describes the sinking and wreckage of the ocean liner ""Titanic"". ""Convergence"" consists of eleven stanzas (""I"" to ""XI"") of three lines each, following the AAA rhyme pattern. Hardy was asked to compose a poem to be read at a charity concert to raise funds in aid of the tragedy disaster fund. It was first published as part of the souvenir program for that event. One interpretation is that Hardy's controversial poem contrasts"
"Crossing the Bar ""Crossing the Bar"" is an 1889 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It is considered that Tennyson wrote it in elegy; the poem has a tone of finality and the narrator uses an extended metaphor to compare death with crossing the ""sandbar"" between river of life, with its outgoing ""flood"", and the ocean that lies beyond [death], the ""boundless deep"", to which we return. Tennyson is believed to have written the poem (after suffering a serious illness) while on the sea, crossing the Solent from Aldworth to Farringford on the Isle of Wight. Separately, it has been suggested"
"of the sinking of the ""Titanic"". The Convergence of the Twain ""The Convergence of the Twain (Lines on the loss of the ""Titanic"")"" is a poem by Thomas Hardy, published in 1912. The poem describes the sinking and wreckage of the ocean liner ""Titanic"". ""Convergence"" consists of eleven stanzas (""I"" to ""XI"") of three lines each, following the AAA rhyme pattern. Hardy was asked to compose a poem to be read at a charity concert to raise funds in aid of the tragedy disaster fund. It was first published as part of the souvenir program for that event. One interpretation"
"signifies ""Denys's son"", although no connection between the two families is recorded. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was a British poet. He was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, ""Timbuktu"". He published his first solo collection of poems, ""Poems Chiefly Lyrical"" in 1830. ""Claribel"" and ""Mariana"", which remain some of Tennyson's most celebrated poems, were included"
"drowned the third,<br>""Children should be seen, not heard!"" The only substantial anthology of Graham's verse is ""When Grandmama Fell Off The Boat: The Best of Harry Graham"". The latest edition was published by Sheldrake Press in 2009. During the war, Graham started to write lyrics for English operettas and musical comedies, including ""Tina"" (1915), ""Sybil"" (1916), the 1917 hit operetta ""The Maid of the Mountains"" and ""A Southern Maid"" (1920), and English adaptations of European operettas such as ""Whirled into Happiness"" (1922), ""Madame Pompadour"" (1923), ""The Land of Smiles"" (1931) and many others. His best known lyrics were ""You are"
"The Tyger ""The Tyger"" is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the ""Songs of Experience"" collection. Literary critic Alfred Kazin calls it ""the most famous of his poems"", and ""The Cambridge Companion to William Blake"" says it is ""the most anthologized poem in English"". It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works. The ""Songs of Experience"" was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 ""Songs of Innocence."" The two books were published together under the merged title ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience, showing the Two Contrary"
"The Last of the Light Brigade ""The Last of the Light Brigade"" is a poem written in 1890 by Rudyard Kipling echoing – thirty-six years after the event – Alfred Tennyson's famous poem ""The Charge of the Light Brigade"". Employing synecdoche, Kipling uses his poem to expose the terrible hardship faced in old age by veterans of the Crimean War, as exemplified by the cavalry men of the light brigade who charged at the Battle of Balaclava. It describes a visit by the last twenty survivors of the charge to Tennyson (then in his eightieth year) to reproach him gently"
"children. He was playing the organ at church services at the age of 13. His improvisations on both piano and organ were inspiring. Tom Lovatt-Williams Tom Lovatt-Williams, often known as T. Lovatt Williams, (28 May 1897 – 22 September 1986) was an English poet and writer about railways and nature topics. His best-known poem, ""Oxford"", was broadcast several times on the BBC programme ""Poetry Please"", and is included in the published anthology of favourite poems from that programme. His novel ""The Gentle Years"" was read on the BBC's Book at Bedtime by Richard Harris. What was not publicised at the"
"Ramsay in Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"". Rudyard Kipling wrote poetry in support of the British cause in the Boer War, including the well known ""Lichtenberg"", which is about a combatant's death in a foreign land. Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, and others wrote also poems relating to the Boer War. Hardy's poems include ""Drummer Hodge"",and ""The Man He Killed"". '""Swinburne regularly donated work to the papers to rouse the spirit, from 'Transvaal', with the infamous closing line, 'Strike, England, and strike home', to 'The Turning of the Tide'."" The major novelist and poet Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) wrote a number"
"on a 7-foot-tall granite pedestal, was cast in the Ames Foundry in Chicopee, Massachusetts and was made from seven American Civil War cannons donated for the project by Congress. The statue, and the 1875 bridge, were dedicated on April 19, 1875 at a centennial recognition of the original battle of April 19, 1775. American poet James Russell Lowell wrote in his poem ""Lines"" (1849) of the graves of two of the three British soldiers who died at the bridge: But in 1910 residents of Concord placed a plaque to mark the graves using other lines from Lowell's poem: The grave"
"erosion caused by logging in the Adirondacks could silt up the canal contributed to the creation in 1885 of another New York National Historic Landmark, the Adirondack Park. Many notable authors wrote about the canal, including Herman Melville, Frances Trollope, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Marquis de Lafayette, and many tales and songs were written about life on the canal. The popular song ""Low Bridge"" by Thomas S. Allen was written in 1905 to memorialize the canal's early heyday, when barges were pulled by mules rather than engines. The New York State Legislature"
"prey to the collective mirage of a new order, to stay wide awake while others succumb to the lethe of the group mind, to resist the gaze of modern Gorgons"". Tony Harrison Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright. He was born in Leeds and he received his education in Classics from Leeds Grammar School and Leeds University. He is one of Britain's foremost verse writers and many of his works have been performed at the Royal National Theatre. He is noted for controversial works such as the poem ""V"", as well as his"
"injuries. He was a member of the Board of Inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster, with fellow members Henry Cadogan Rothery and William Henry Barlow. A train was lost on the night of 28 December 1879 while crossing the Tay estuary just south of Dundee. The centre section of the 2-mile-long bridge collapsed during a storm, with the loss of all on board the train. The inquiry sat initially in Dundee to hear eye witness accounts of the accident, and then in London for expert evidence. They produced their final report in June 1880, and concluded that the bridge was"
"insight into the problem. An example of modern vintage is the publication of ""The High Girders"" in 1956 by the journalist John Prebble concerning Tay Bridge Disaster of December 28, 1879, one of the worst ever disasters on the rail network in Britain. It is a well composed book and written with good documentary accuracy, the author having accessed the many documents which have survived, especially the massive government report of 1880. On the other hand, he lacks confidence when discussing the engineering defects which lay at the heart of the accident. It did have a very positive benefit in"
"(1973), ""The Best of Enemies"" (1976), ""Sister Dora"" (1977), and ""Star Over Bethlehem"" (1981). <br> <br> Christopher Fry Christopher Fry (18 December 1907 – 30 June 2005) was an English poet and playwright. He is best known for his verse dramas, notably ""The Lady's Not for Burning"", which made him a major force in theatre in the 1940s and 1950s. Fry was born as Arthur Hammond Harris in Bristol, the son of Charles John Harris, a master builder who retired early to work full-time as a licensed Lay Reader in the Church of England, and his wife Emma Marguerite Fry"
"Tom Lovatt-Williams Tom Lovatt-Williams, often known as T. Lovatt Williams, (28 May 1897 – 22 September 1986) was an English poet and writer about railways and nature topics. His best-known poem, ""Oxford"", was broadcast several times on the BBC programme ""Poetry Please"", and is included in the published anthology of favourite poems from that programme. His novel ""The Gentle Years"" was read on the BBC's Book at Bedtime by Richard Harris. What was not publicised at the time was that it was based on his childhood experiences at Ellesmere, near Oswestry, where he was born. He was a regular contributor"
"and journalist Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859). However, at the time, Walter Scott (1771–1832) was the most famous poet. Scott achieved immediate success with his long narrative poem ""The Lay of the Last Minstrel"" in 1805, followed by the full epic poem ""Marmion"" in 1808. Both were set in the distant Scottish past. The early Romantic Poets brought a new emotionalism and introspection, and their emergence is marked by the first romantic manifesto in English literature, the ""Preface"" to ""Lyrical Ballads"" (1798). The poems in ""Lyrical Ballads"" were mostly by Wordsworth, although Coleridge contributed the long ""Rime of the Ancient Mariner""."
"alongside the old with a double line of tracks. He married Madelina, ""née"" Garden, in 1851 but the couple had no children. He retired in the early summer of 1888 and died at Ribsden, Bagshot, Surrey. Henry Cadogan Rothery Henry Cadogan Rothery (1817 – 2 August 1888) was an English lawyer and commissioner of wrecks (now known as the Receiver of Wreck), especially remembered for chairing the inquiry into the Tay Bridge disaster in 1879. Rothery was born in London. His father was William Rothery, chief of the office of the King's Proctor in Doctors' Commons. Henry was educated at"
"of the tunes. The Tyger ""The Tyger"" is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the ""Songs of Experience"" collection. Literary critic Alfred Kazin calls it ""the most famous of his poems"", and ""The Cambridge Companion to William Blake"" says it is ""the most anthologized poem in English"". It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works. The ""Songs of Experience"" was published in 1794 as a follow up to Blake's 1789 ""Songs of Innocence."" The two books were published together under the merged title ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience, showing"
"Cataract of Lodore ""The Cataract of Lodore"" is a poem written in 1820 by the English poet Robert Southey which describes the Lodore Falls on the Watendlath. One of Southey's most popular poems, ""The Cataract of Lodore"" made an early appearance in Joanna Baillie's 1823 anthology, ""Poems, Chiefly Manuscript, and from Living Authors"". On its inclusion, Baillie wrote Southey, ""Your Cataract of Lodore has pleased & amused me exceedingly ... We shall have the younger part of my readers running about with portions of it in their mouths and shaking their heads to the measure, for these six months to"