Fanny, with Other Poems

"Fanny, with Other Poems" is a collection of poetic satire on life in New York in the 1820s. The author, Fitz-Greene Halleck, was a member of the Knickerbocker Group, famous for his satires. The poems were sharp and keen and laughed at the lives and manners of the members of different social strata: "They are gay as the Brussels carpet they tread on, and sapient as the oysters they are fed on"