Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings

Table of Contents:
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 FRANÇOIS COPPÉE 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 “Necklace of 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 Exposé of His Career Select Bibliography

About the Author :
Gregory Eiselein is a professor of English at Kansas State University. He is the author of Literature and Humanitarian Reform in the Civil War Era (1996) and the editor of Infelicia and Other Writings, by Adah Isaacs Menken (Broadview Press, 2002).

Review :
“Gregory Eiselein has created an important historical-literary context for Emma Lazarus’s writing; this edition will be invaluable in making her work accessible to twenty-first century readers.” — Diane Lichtenstein, Beloit College “Eiselein’s expertly edited and annotated volume is an invaluable contribution to the recovery of lost texts by women writers. With its well-researched notes, historical contextualization, and supplementary materials, this superb edition is certain to become the definitive edition of Lazarus’s works. An impressive achievement!.” — Denise D. Knight, State University of New York, Cortland “This collection provides a rich introduction to this important and under-appreciated American author. It is necessary reading for any scholar of nineteenth-century American poetry, nineteenth-century American woman writers, or the history of Jewish-American writing.” — Marianne Noble, American University