The Vault at Pfaff's

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

Rats

Anonymous. "Rats." Vanity Fair, January 21, 1860, 61.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
poetry
Abstract

Poem about a man cast to be eaten by rats after judgment. Their nibbling and inviolable gnawing seem to reflect his internal tumult.