The Vault at Pfaff's

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

A New Cotton Eclogue

Anonymous. "A New Cotton Eclogue." Vanity Fair, October 5, 1861, 162.
Electronic Source Available
Type
magazine
Genre
poetry
Abstract

England and the South have a conversation in this polyphonic poem. Each side makes a moral claim about the issues of cotton and lending money, but England is ultimately portrayed as the more reprehensible.