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Emma Lazarus (July 22, 1849 – November 19, 1887) was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish and Georgist causes. She is remembered for writing the sonnet "The New Colossus", which was inspired by the Statue of Liberty, in 1883. [1]
Motivated by his own 2007 manifesto "Uncreative Writing" [3] and notion that "any language can be poetry", [4] Goldsmith has been the editor of one continuous project of innovative poetics, comprising both the study and practice of conceptual poetry as a writer, academic, and the curator of the archives at UbuWeb. In his own words, "I guess ...
Maureen, born on July 4, 1882, recounts her girlhood in backcountry Missouri, discovery that her family is a member of the long-lived Howard Families (whose backstory is revealed in Methuselah's Children), marriage to Brian Smith, another member of that group, and her life—largely in Kansas City—until her apparent death in 1982.
In 1901, Lazarus's friend Georgina Schuyler began an effort to memorialize Lazarus and her poem, which succeeded in 1903 when a plaque bearing the text of the poem was put on the inner wall of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. [4] On the plaque hanging inside the Statue of Liberty, the line "Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!"
The original book, first published in 1981, was based on a course, "The Little Red Schoolhouse," that Williams taught for many years at the University of Chicago. The book has since gone through numerous editions and has become a popular text for writing classes. The thirteenth edition was published in 2021. [2]
Another little-known edition [5] was printed from hand-set type by John Hecht in Chicago in 1951. In 1978, the "Lazarus Edition" of 200 copies was published. It consisted of newly discovered pages of a private printing from the 20s with a new, wood-engraved portrait of Mark Twain, made by Barry Moser .
Folio 78 recto from the Codex Aureus of Echternach, Lazarus and Dives Text page (Mt 4:22–5:16) The Codex Aureus of Echternach (Codex aureus Epternacensis) is an illuminated Gospel Book, created in the approximate period 1030–1050, [1] with a re-used front cover from around the 980s. [2] It is now in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in ...
The Notebooks of Lazarus Long is a 1978 collection of aphorisms by Robert Heinlein's main character, "Lazarus Long", excerpted from his 1973 novel Time Enough for Love. [1] The aphorisms were originally published as two "intermission" sections in the novel.