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| Lazarus, Emma |
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| 1849–87, American poet and essayist, b. New York City. Her early verse includes Admetus and Other Poems (1871) and The Spagnoletto (1876), a poetic drama. Enraged by the Russian pogroms of the 1880s, she became an impassioned spokeswoman for Judaism, writing many essays and the book of poems, Songs of a Semite (1882), which contains her best work. Her sonnet about the Statue of Liberty, “The New Colossus,” was engraved on the statue’s pedestal. Her other work includes translations of Heine. | 1 | | See biographies by C. Angoff (1979) and E. Schor (2006). | 2 |
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