Emma Lazarus : selected poems and other writings

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Emma Lazarus : selected poems and other writings

edited by Gregory Eiselein

(Broadview literary texts)

Broadview Press, c2002

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Bibliography: p. 363-364

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The greatest American Jewish author of the nineteenth century, Emma Lazarus was a celebrated poet and humanitarian activist. This edition is a broad collection of her writings, including her essays, previously unpublished poems, her innovative late work, and, in its entirety, her most important book, Songs of a Semite (1882). Her best known poem, "The New Colossus" (the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem that made Lazarus a national icon), is also here, along with a selection of cultural documents that help contextualize her work in relation to contemporary debates about Jewish history, the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, immigration, and antisemitism.

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  • Acknowledgements Introduction Emma Lazarus: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Texts From Poems and Translations Links Clytie LONG ISLAND SOUND From Admetus and Other Poems Epochs [I-VII, XVI] In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport Heroes PHANTASIES MOODS TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH OF FRANCOIS COPPEE ARABESQUE THE CRANES OF IBYCUS OFF ROUGH POINT LEDA & THE SWAN THE SOUTH SYMPHONIC STUDIES THE CREATION OF MAN A LETTER, FROM JUDAH HALLEVI TO HIS FRIEND ISAAC CHOPIN NIGHT-PIECE DESTINY THE TAMING OF THE FALCON RASCHI IN PRAGUE ASSURANCE ECHOES From Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine Morphine Homeward Bound [LXV] The Asra Song An Apparition in the Sea Question CITY VISIONS PROGRESS AND POVERTY LAURA'S DEATH TRIUMPH OF LOVE Songs of a Semite: The Dance to Death, and Other Poems The Dance to Death
  • A Historical Tragedy in Five Acts Songs The New Year The Crowing of the Red Cock In Exile In Memoriam-Rev. JJ. Lyons The Valley of Baca The Banner of the Jew The Guardian of the Red Disk A Translation of Heine and Two Imitations Donna Clara Don Pedrillo Fra Pedro Translations from the Hebrew Poets of Mediaeval Spain Solomon ben Judah Gabirol Night-Thoughts Meditations Hymn To a Detractor Fragment Stanzas Wine and Grief Defiance A Degenerate Age Judah ben Ha-Levi Love-Song Separation Longing for Jerusalem On the Voyage to Jerusalem I On the Voyage to Jerusalem II To the West Wind III Moses ben Esra Extracts from the Book of Tarshish, or "Necklaceof Pearls" In the Night From the "Divan" Love Song of Alcharisi AN EPISTLE FROM JOSHUA IBNVIVES OF ALLORQUI THE WORLD'S JUSTICE THE FEAST OF LIGHTS LIFE AND ART THE NEW EZEKIEL CONSOLATION THE NEW COLOSSUS 1492 CRITIC AND POET THE CHOICE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE THE BIRTH OF MAN To R.WE. BAR KOCHBA THE VENUS OF THE LOUVRE GIFTS ADMONITION BY THE WATERS OF BABYLON A MASQUE OF VENICE Selected Essays Russian Christianity versus Modern Judaism Emerson's Personality An Epistle to the Hebrews [V, XII] The Jewish Problem The Poet Heine A Day in Surrey with William Morris Appendix A: Biography Josephine Lazarus, "Emma Lazarus" Appendix B: Selections from the Correspondence From Ralph Waldo Emerson, 14 April 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 27 June 1868 From Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19 Nov. 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 22 Nov. 1868 To Ralph Waldo Emerson, 27 Dec. 1874 To Rabbi Gustav Gottheil, 25 Feb. [1877] John Burroughs, to Emma Lazarus, 29 Apr. 1878 To Helena deKay Gilder, 18 Aug. 1879 To Edmund Clarence Stedman, [Summer 1881] To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 14 Jan. 1882 To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 23 Aug. 1882 To Samuel Gray Ward, 12 Oct. 1882 To Philip Cowen, 5 May [1883] To Helena deKay Gilder, 4 July 1883 From James Russell Lowell, 17 Dec. 1883 To Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, 29 Jan. [1884] Appendix C: Critical Response * 320 The New-York Times The Illustrated London News The New-York Times The Jewish Chronicle Pereira Mendes The American Hebrew The Literary World Solomon Solis-Cohen Edmund Clarence Stedman Appendix D: Cultural Contexts Heinrich Graetz, from Geschichte der Juden [The History of the Jews] George Eliot, from Daniel Deronda From "The Persecution of the Jews in Russia," The Times Mme. Z. Ragozin, from "Russian Jews and Gentiles. From a Russian Point of View" Samuel S. Cox, from the Congressional Record Abram S. Isaacs, "Will the Jews Return to Palestine?" Telemachus Thomas Timayenis, from The American Jew: An Expose of His Career Select Bibliography

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