James Oppenheim
(1882–1932)

American poet, novelist, and editor. He contributed short stories, articles, and poems to many leading American magazines, and was the founder and editor of The Seven Arts, an important early 20th-century literary magazine. Oppenheim depicted labor troubles with Fabian and suffragist themes in his novel, The Nine-Tenths (1911) and in his famous poem Bread and Roses (1911).

Works

As editor

  • Founder and editor of The Seven Arts, a literary magazine

Novels

Collections

  • Monday Morning and Other Poems (1909) (external scan)
  • Pay Envelopes (1911) (short stories) (external scan)
  • Songs For The New Age (1914) (We dead — We unborn) poems (external scan)
  • War and Laughter (1916) poems (external scan)
  • The Book Of Self (1917) (Self — The song of life — Creation, a drama) (external scan)
  • The Solitary (1919) (The Randolph Bourne — The sea—Songs out of solitude — Songs out of multitude—Night) (external scan)
  • The Mystic Warrior (1921) poems (external scan)
  • The Golden Bird (1923)
  • The Sea (1924)
  • Behind Your Front (1926)

Poems

  • Bread and Roses (1911)
  • "Good Morning!" in Century Magazine, Aug 1916
  • "Morning and I," Century Magazine, Sep 1917
  • "New York, from a Skyscraper," American Magazine, 1909
  • The Sea (1924)
  • "Songs for the New Age" in The Century Magazine, Sep 1914
    • "Patterns"
    • "Abide the Adventure"
    • "The Slave"
    • "The Lonely Child"
    • "Folk-Hunger"
    • "Joy of Living"
    • "A Handful of Dust"
    • "The Woman Speaks"
    • "The Man Speaks"
    • "We Dead"

Short works from magazines

Film

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1932, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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