The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

Jonathan's Idees

Anonymous. "Jonathan's Idees." Vanity Fair, January 14, 1860, 40.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
poetry
Abstract

The speaker bookends a poem about two rival and blowhard politicians (as if there were another type) wistfully wishing he could be a do-nothing politician as well.