Author:James Oppenheim

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James Oppenheim
(1882–1932)

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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

The Nine-Tenths (1911) (start transcription), Project Gutenberg
The Olympian (1912) (external scan)
Idle Wives (1914)
The Beloved (1915) (external scan)

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)
- Hebrews (1922)
"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"
"Pittsburgh" in Poems for Workers: An Anthology (1925)
"Bread and Roses" in Poems for Workers: An Anthology (1925)

Short works from magazines

"Bits of Glass" (ss) Collier's, Nov 2, 1912
"City Nights," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Jul 1912
"Clerks," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Aug 1912
"Everyday," (ss) American Magazine, 1909
"The Great Fear," (ss) American Magazine, Jun 1909
"Groping Children," (ss) American Magazine, 1909
"Long Pants," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Jun 1912
' "Miser'ble",' (ss) Century Magazine, Aug 1915
"Mr. Fitch," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Apr 1913
"The New Generation," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Feb 1912
"The Seventh Night," (ss) American Magazine, May 1909
"The Unborn," (ss) American Magazine, Sep 1909
"The Years," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Apr 1912
"The Young Woman," (ss) Harper's Magazine, Mar 1913

Film

Writer(?) of The Life of Abraham Lincoln (1915)
Writer of The Ghost of Old Morro (1917)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1932, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 92 years or less. These works may 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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