Poems and translations

Emma LAZARUS

Classic Textbooks, 1867

Table des matières

• IN MEMORIAM: 1
• ON A LOCK OF MY MOTHERS HAIR: 8
• THE SEAQUEENS TOILET: 15
• LUCIA TO EDGARDO: 22
• ONLY A DREAM: 28
• LINKS: 34
• THE MOTHERS PRAYER: 40
• UN RECUERDO: 42
• A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER: 49
• ROMANCE: 55
• DRIFTED: 62
• A SPRING MORNING: 69
• SONG: 84
• TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GERMAN: 213
• SONG FROM SCHILLER: 221
• SONG: 229
• AT VILLEQUIER: 237
• THREE YEARS AFTER: 246
• ABIDE IN HOPE: 252
• THE ROSE AND THE BUTTERFLY: 262
• GUITARE: 268
• TO KING LOUISPHILIPPE: 275
• THE CAPTIVE: 282
• WHILE KNOCKING AT A DOOR: 288
• SUNSETS: 295

À propos de l'auteur

Emma Lazarus is best remembered for her sonnet "The New Colossus" (1883), which is inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty. Born in New York City, a precocious child of wealthy and cultured parents, she was an avid reader and student. Her first book of rather conventional poetry, Poems and Translations (1866), was published when she was only 17. Her second, Admetus and Other Poems (1871), was dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson, who had responded positively to her work. Her many translations---Heinrich Heine and Friedrich von Schiller from German, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas (pere) from French, and medieval poetry from Hebrew---attest to her scholarship and facility with languages. Some of her best work, included in Songs of a Semite (1882), arose from her commitment to her Jewish heritage and her response to the persecution of Jews in Europe, especially the Russian pogroms of 1882.

Informations bibliographiques

• Titre: Poems and translations
• Auteur: Emma LAZARUS
• Éditeur: Classic Textbooks, 1867
• Original provenant de: The British Library
• Numérisé: 28 avr. 2014
• ISBN: 1404737669, 9781404737662