英语词汇poetaster的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

poetaster. Erasmus coined this word for an inferior poet in a 1521 letter to a friend. Nineteenth-century Scottish poet Wil- liam McGonagall is probably the only poetaster to actually have his work collected because it is so bad. In his introduction to McGonagall’s selected poems, published by Stephen Greene Press, James L. Smith writes that the poet is “unquestionably the great master of Il-literature in the language.” McGonagall, who never lost faith in his greatness and actually outsells Browning and Tennyson in Great Britain today, attracted audi- ences to his poetry readings because people who had read his poems wanted to pelt him with rotten tomatoes and eggplant. Others have produced poems with more mechanical regularity than McGonagall; present-day Indian poet Sri Chinmoy com- posed 843 poems within a day in 1975, and another time turned out 16,031 paintings in a day. However, no one’s poetry has been so consistently bad as the Scottish bard’s, which has been called “the worst poetry ever written, in any language, at any time.” A sample of his work from “The Battle of Abu Klea”:

词汇	poetaster
词源	poetaster. Erasmus coined this word for an inferior poet in a 1521 letter to a friend. Nineteenth-century Scottish poet Wil- liam McGonagall is probably the only poetaster to actually have his work collected because it is so bad. In his introduction to McGonagall’s selected poems, published by Stephen Greene Press, James L. Smith writes that the poet is “unquestionably the great master of Il-literature in the language.” McGonagall, who never lost faith in his greatness and actually outsells Browning and Tennyson in Great Britain today, attracted audi- ences to his poetry readings because people who had read his poems wanted to pelt him with rotten tomatoes and eggplant. Others have produced poems with more mechanical regularity than McGonagall; present-day Indian poet Sri Chinmoy com- posed 843 poems within a day in 1975, and another time turned out 16,031 paintings in a day. However, no one’s poetry has been so consistently bad as the Scottish bard’s, which has been called “the worst poetry ever written, in any language, at any time.” A sample of his work from “The Battle of Abu Klea”: Oh, it was an exciting and terrible sight, To see Colonel Burnably engaged in fight; With sword in hand, fighting with might and main Until killed by a spear thrust in the jugular vain.
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