The Vault at Pfaff's
O'Brien, Fitz-James. "The Prize-Fight [from Harper's Monthly for December]." Saturday Press, November 20, 1858, 1.
Type
newspaper
Genre
poetry
Abstract
A boxing match is set amidst a peaceful community surrounded by nature's beauty. Two "lusty and tall" youths without malice toward one another are egged on by a “bestial crowd” of ruffians. They fight until their faces are but "illegible masses of flesh."