biography
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| lived:
| (1849–87)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in New York City, USA. She published striking volumes of poems and translations, including Admetus and Other Poems (1871), Songs of a Semite (1882), and By the Waters of Babylon (1887). She also wrote a prose romance, Alide: an Episode of Goethe's Life (1874), and a verse tragedy, The Spagnaletto (1876). She is best known for her sonnet, ‘The New Colossus’ (1883), inscribed in a room in the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York harbour, which begins ‘Give me your tired, your poor / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free’. |
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