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* The <s>great</s> Scottish-Canadian poet [https://web.archive.org/web/20080224063319/http://www.nickpage.co.uk/worstweb/McIntyre/mcintyre.html James McIntyre], 1828-1906, best remembered for the timeless classic, "Ode on the Mammoth Cheese Weighing Over 7,000 Pounds." Sounds so [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Vogon]]. Maybe a truly epic piece of cheese just does that to peoples' brains.
* The total oeuvre of [http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/ William Topaz McGonagall], perpetrator of the worst poetry in the English language - though his considerable popularity at the time suggests that both he and his contemporary audience were [[So Bad It's Good|in on the joke.]]
* And Theophilus Marzials's poem, "A Tragedy", which is considered ''the'' worst poem in the English language. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140220055900/http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/bad/Marzials.Tragedy.html Read it out loud in your most Shakespearean voice.]
** Methinks I sense a bit of the [[Hitch Hikers Guide to The Galaxy|Vogon]] in Mr. Marzials's genes...
* Almost everything by Matthew Reilly.
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* ''Knight Moves'', supposedly a romance, but in fact awful erotica. A woman accidentally ends up in the men's room of a Medieval Times-type restaurant, which somehow sends her to the Middle Ages. There, she screws her way through most of England before returning to Philadelphia for a hideously racist Your Momma rap contest with a street gang who speak nothing even resembling street speak. And if that's not enough, the sex scenes veer from [[IKEA Erotica]] to [[Purple Prose]] and back, violently. One of the more work-safe excerpts:
{{quote|"''And 'tis time for us to partake of Pleasure's fruit again, milady. My codpiece has desired your lady-softness all day long.''".}}
** Read a review, in all its [[NSFW]] glory, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110114014408/http://dearauthor.com/wordpress/2009/03/05/review-knight-moves-by-jamaica-layne/ here].
** Hilariously, the hero of the "Knight Moves" is named Lord Verdigris. [[wikipedia:Verdigris|Verdigris]] is the green stuff that forms on copper, brass or bronze when its been exposed to the air or seawater for too long (think Statue of Liberty).
** Note to Ms. Layne: [[Written Sound Effect|written]] [[Pac-Man Fever|8-bit video game sound effects]] have no place in erotica. [[Rule 34|Usually.]]
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** [[Mark Twain]] himself declared one of her works, ''Irene Iddesleigh'', "one of the greatest unintentionally hilarious novels of all time."
* ''Llandor'', a fantasy novel by Louise Laurance. Features technology-is-evil rants by the main characters, Meat-Eating Is Evil rants by the main characters, a [[Face Heel Turn]] by a technology-loving meat-eater (he came from our world and just couldn't give them up, [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|the bastard]]), ''weird'' morals ("fat people should expect and accept being be bullied"). Thought hippie elves were created by Paolini? Wrong. Add a plot ripped from [[The Lord of the Rings]] and [[Star Wars]], and you've got an [[So Bad It's Good|entertaining novel]].
* One of the oldest surviving examples is Felicia Hemans' ''[[Casabianca]]'', which is surely the single most parodied poem of all time. The best-known parody (which is also quite an accurate synopsis) being [[Spike Milligan]]'s ''Casabazonka'':
{{quote|The boy stood on the burning deck
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* [[George Orwell]] discusses the phenomenon as it applies to literature in his essay "[http://www.george-orwell.org/Good_Bad_Books/0.html Good Bad Books]".
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