The poems of Emma Lazarus contributed towards shaping the self-image of the United States as well as how the country understands the needs of those who emigrate to the United States. Her themes produced sensitivity and enduring lessons regarding immigrants and their need for dignity. This edition of poems is divided in two volumes, first one being Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic, while second one contains Jewish Poems and Translations.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1 – Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic
Emma Lazzarus, a Biography
Epochs
Admetus
Tannhauser
Matins
Saint Romualdo
Afternoon
Phantasies
On the Proposal to Erect a Monument in England to Lord Byron
Arabesque
Agamemnon’s Tomb
Sic Semper Liberatoribus!
Don Rafael
Off Rough Point
Mater Amabilis
Fog
The Elixir
Song
Spring Longing
The South
Soring Star
A June Night
Magnetism
August Moon
Sunrise
A Masque of Venice
Autumn Sadness
Sonnets
Symphonic Studies
Long Island Sound
Destiny
From One Augur to Another
The Cranes of Ibycus
Critic and Poet
St. Michael’s Chapel
Life and Art
Sympathy
Youth and Death
Age and Death
City Visions
Influence
Restlessness
The Spagnoletto
Volume 2 – Jewish Poems and Translations
The New Year
The Crowing of the Red Cock
In Exile
In Memoriam – Rev. J. J. Lyons
The Valley of Baca
The Banner of the Jew
The Guardian of the Red Disk
The New Ezekiel
The Choice
The World’s Justice
The Supreme Sacrifice
The Feast of Lights
Gifts
Bar Kochba
The Birth of Man
Raschi in Pregue
The Death of Raschi
An Epistle
By the Waters of Babylon
To Carmen Sylva
The Dance to Death
Translations from the Hebrew Poets of Medaeval Spain
To a Detractor
Fragment
Stanzas
Wine and Grief
Moses Ben Esra (About 1100)
In the Night
From the ‘Divan’
Love Song of Alcharisi
Nachum
A Translation and Two Imitations
Translations from Petrarch
In Morte II. – On the Death of Cardinal
Translations from Alfred de Musset
Notes to ‘Epistle’ of Joshua Ibn Vives of Allorqui
Over de auteur
Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish causes. She wrote the sonnet ‘The New Colossus’ and Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
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