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

Criticisms on the Elder Poets

Anonymous. "Criticisms on the Elder Poets." Vanity Fair, December 29, 1860, 325.
Type
magazine
Genre
commentary
Abstract

The Vanity Fair deems it worthwhile to study some of the long-existing lines. Here it considers the famous rhymes about the cow jumping over the moon, noting foremost the use of with.