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Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American poet born in New York City. She is best known for writing "The New Colossus", a sonnet written in 1883; its final ...
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Introduction “ Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” Emma Lazarus' famous lines ...
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Emma Lazarus (1849-1887), American poet, born in New York City. Her Poems and Translations (1867) contains her first work. In the early 1880s Lazarus used poetry to protest the persecution of Russian Jews, resulting in the publication of her Songs of a Semite (1882). Her sonnet “The New Colossus” (1883), which was inscribed in 1903 on the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor (see Liberty, Statue of), expresses her faith in the United States as a haven for the oppressed.

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