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James Oppenheim was an American poet, novelist, and editor.
Background
James Oppenheim was born on May 24, 1882, in St. Paul, Minnesota, the eldest son of Matilda (Schloss) and Joseph Oppenheim, comfortably situated American Jews. James was a baby when they moved to New York City, where he received his education, chiefly in the public schools. His father's death, when he was six, brought him, too early, a sense of responsibility, and his contacts with Dr. Felix Adler encouraged him in a strenuous ethical discipline, from which the eager sensuous boy sought refuge in the reading and writing of poetry.
Education
For a few years James took extension courses at Columbia University, supporting himself by social and secretarial work, and later, by teaching.
Career
James Oppenheim spent about a year as superintendent of the Hebrew Technical School for Girls (1905 - 07), but proving too radical, had to resign. Resolving to live by his pen, he wrote popular sentimental short stories and mediocre novels, which expressed his passion for social justice. He believed that his writing was warped by the necessity for making it pay - he had a wife and two sons to support. The fault probably lay as much in the fact that his moral fervor exceeded his ability to convey it. His first book of verse, Monday Morning and Other Poems, appeared in 1909, but it was almost half a dozen years later, when he broke sharply with the middle-class world in which he had been living, that he began to find himself as a poet. In the free rhythms and clear emotions of Songs for the New Age (1914) there were signs that he was coming into his own. The happiest period of his career began with the establishment, in November 1916, of The Seven Arts, a monthly of which he was the editor and which included among its contributors men who have since become the most distinguished of American writers.
When it took a bold stand against the World War, its subsidy was withdrawn, and Oppenheim was ostracized as a traitor. Spiritually and physically sick, he found salvation in the psychoanalytic doctrines of Jung. For a time he was a practising psychoanalyst and also tried to popularize Jung's theories through the press. Unfortunately, he allowed this interest to obtrude itself into his poetry, becoming less self-critical than ever. This is obvious in The Sea (1924), a volume containing all of his verse that he wished to preserve. He sinks to prosy banality in the part of the book which reprints The Mystic Warrior (1921) and rises to the height of his attainment in the Golden Bird (1923), which contains melodious love lyrics and poems successfully fusing the themes of Whitman and the Psalmist. Last years of his life were darkened by sickness, poverty, and the clouding of his early fame. He died of tuberculosis at the age of fifty. There was warmth, candor, and sweetness in the man, but his poetic gift was inadequate fully to express his sensitive and insurgent nature.
Besides the works mentioned above, Oppenheim published the following books of prose: Doctor Rast (1909), Wild Oats (1910), Pay-Envelopes (1911), The Nine-Tenths (1911), The Olympian (1912), Idle Wives (1914), The Psychology of Jung (1925); and these volumes of verse: The Pioneers (1910), War and Laughter (1916), The Book of Self (1917). Parts of The Beloved (1915), a novel, were reprinted as free verse.
Achievements
James Oppenheim's works: Monday Morning and Other Poems (1909); Songs for the New Age (1914); The Sea (1924); The Mystic Warrior (1921); The Golden Bird (1923); Doctor Rast (1909); Wild Oats (1910); Pay-Envelopes (1911; The Nine-Tenths (1911); The Olympian (1912); Idle Wives (1914); The Psychology of Jung (1925); The Pioneers (1910); War and Laughter (1916); The Book of Self (1917); Parts of The Beloved (1915).
At twenty-three, June 1, 1905, James Oppenheim married Lucy Seckel. They had two sons: Ralph and James Jr. He was divorced from his first wife in 1914. Later he married Linda Gray, who cherished him in the last years of his life.
