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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: net.poems
Subject: Re: bad poetry
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Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 08:45:15 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 12 08:45:15 1986
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> Julia A. Moore wrote poetry that was even worse than McGonagall's.

I'm curious, what makes McGonagall or Moore a "distinguished bad poet"?
Surely there are thousands of people in the world who write equally terrible
poetry; is it that Moore and McGonagall succeeded in getting published
widely?
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