In addition to writing her own poems, Lazarus edited many adaptations of German poems, notably those of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Heinrich Heine. Lazarus also wrote The Crowing of the Red Cock, and the sixteen-part cycle poem "Epochs". In April 1882, Lazarus published in The Century Magazine the article "Was the Earl of Beaconsfield a Representative Jew?" Her statement of the reasons for answering this question in the affirmative may be taken to close what may be termed the Hellenic and journeyman period of Lazarus's life, during which her subjects were drawn from classic and romantic sources. In the same year, 1881, she became friends with Rose Hawthorne Lathrop. Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine (New York, 1881) followed, and was prefixed by a biographical sketch of Heine Lazarus's renderings of some of Heine's verse are considered among the best in English. Her first prose production, Alide: An Episode of Goethe's Life, a romance treating of the Friederike Brion incident, was published in 1874 ( Philadelphia), and was followed by The Spagnoletto (1876), a tragedy. īy this time, Lazarus's work had won recognition abroad. During the next decade, in which "Phantasies" and "Epochs" were written, her poems appeared chiefly in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine and Scribner's Monthly. The title poem was dedicated "To my friend Ralph Waldo Emerson", whose works and personality were exercising an abiding influence upon the poet's intellectual growth. Admetus and Other Poems followed in 1871. It included translations from Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, Alexandre Dumas, and Victor Hugo. A collection of her Poems and Translations, verses written between the ages of fourteen and seventeen, appeared in 1867 (New York), and was commended by William Cullen Bryant. The first stimulus for Lazarus's writing was offered by the American Civil War. Career Writer Poems and ballads of Heinrich Heine She was attracted in youth to poetry, writing her first lyrics when she was eleven years old. Privately educated by tutors from an early age, she studied American and British literature as well as several languages, including German, French, and Italian. Her siblings included sisters Josephine, Sarah, Mary, Agnes and Annie, and a brother, Frank. Cardozo, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Lazarus was related through her mother to Benjamin N. Lazarus's great-great-grandmother on her mother's side, Grace Seixas Nathan (born in Stratford, Connecticut, in 1752) was also a poet. One of her great-grandfathers on the Lazarus side was from Germany the rest of her Lazarus and Nathan ancestors were originally from Portugal and they were among the original twenty-three Portuguese Jews who arrived in New Amsterdam after they fled Recife, Brazil in an attempt to flee from the Inquisition. She was the fourth of seven children of Moses Lazarus, a wealthy Jewish merchant and sugar refiner, and Esther Nathan. Early years and education Įmma Lazarus was born in New York City, July 22, 1849, into a large Sephardic Jewish family. Narrative, Lyric and Dramatic as well as Jewish Poems and Translations. Lazarus was also the author of Poems and Translations (New York, 1867) Admetus, and other Poems (1871) Alide: An Episode of Goethe's Life (Philadelphia, 1874) Poems and Ballads of Heine (New York, 1881) Poems, 2 Vols. The latter part of the sonnet was also set by Lee Hoiby in his song "The Lady of the Harbor" written in 1985 as part of his song cycle "Three Women". The last lines of the sonnet were set to music by Irving Berlin as the song "Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor" for the 1949 musical Miss Liberty, which was based on the sculpting of the Statue of Liberty ( Liberty Enlightening the World). Lazarus was involved in aiding refugees to New York who had fled antisemitic pogroms in eastern Europe, and she saw a way to express her empathy for these refugees in terms of the statue. Its lines appear inscribed on a bronze plaque, installed in 1903, on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. She is remembered for writing the sonnet " The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883. Poetry, prose, translations, novels, playsĮmma Lazarus (J– November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. Beth Olam Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City
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