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 “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

Appendix B: Selections from the Correspondence

Appendix C: Critical Response · 320

Appendix D: Cultural Contexts

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).

Reviews

“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