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(Kh) Lazarus, EmmaMareMagnum
ADMETUS AND OTHER POEMS
Original cloth. 8vo. VI, [2], 229, [1] pages. 20 cm. First edition. Singerman 2284. BAL 11485. Emma Lazarus dedicated Admetus and Other Poems, her second book of poems, which appeared in the twenty-second year of her life, To my friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who had encouraged her poetic career. The volume contains perhaps her earliest poem on a Jewish subject, In the Jewish Synagogue at Newport, written in July 1867, when she was not yet eighteen. (From the Ends of the Earth: Judaic Treasures of the Library of Congress, 1991) . Author's second book, only 500 copies were printed. Her rare second book. Lazarus is most famous for her poem, "The New Colossus," the final five lines of which are inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty. Translations on pages [195]-229, [1], of Giacomo Leopardi, Goethe, and Heine. Bound in publishers red cloth boards, with gilt title on spine. Subjects: Emma Lazarus Poems. American poetry - Translations from German. German poetry - Translations into English. Head and tail of backstrip torn at outermost edge, light wear to cloth, otherwise fresh and clean. Very good + condition. (KH-1-12)
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