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    Ole Miss Juvenilia
    Ole Miss Juvenilia
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    Ole Miss Juvenilia

    By William Faulkner

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    Faulkner's prolific publication history began at the age of 16 with poems and sketches for the Ole Miss campus newspaper, The Mississippian. The author continued to contribute to the publication throughout his student days at the university as well as after dropping out. These early works of poetry and prose reflect his gift for keen observations and the growing refinement of his voice as one of the greatest of America's Southern authors. Eighteen of Faulkner's elegant pen-and-ink drawings provide an atmospheric complement to the selections. An Introduction by noted Faulkner scholar Carvel Collins is also included.
    Mississippi native William Faulkner (1897–1962) made his reputation with such psychologically intense and technically innovative novels as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August, and he received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature in addition to two Pulitzer Prizes. Faulkner is especially noted for the rich literary landscape he created in the fictional setting of Yoknapatawpha County, from which he drew characters, places, and themes that reappeared throughout his fiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMay 16, 2018
    ISBN9780486830407
    Ole Miss Juvenilia
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    William Faulkner

    William Faulkner (1897-1962) is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all American novelists and short-story writers.  His other works include the novels The Sound and the Fury, The Reivers, and Sanctuary.  He twice won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and in 1949 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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      Ole Miss Juvenilia - William Faulkner

      OLE MISS JUVENILIA

      William Faulkner

      Introduction by

      Carvel Collins

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      MINEOLA, NEW YORK

      DOVER THRIFT EDITIONS

      GENERAL EDITOR: SUSAN L. RATTINER

      EDITOR OF THIS VOLUME: JANET B. KOPITO

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2018, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Jonathan Cape, London, in 1963 under the title and subtitle William Faulkner, Early Prose and Poetry. Inconsistencies in the spelling of William Faulkner’s name that appeared in the original source have been retained to preserve the authenticity of this work.

      International Standard Book Number

      ISBN-13: 978-0-486-82243-3

      ISBN-10: 0-486-82243-5

      Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

      82243501 2018

      www.doverpublications.com

      To the amiable members of the Faulkner Seminar, University of Tokyo, 1961-62, the compilation of this volume is warmly dedicated.

      Preface

      WHEN William Faulkner’s University of Mississippi prose and poetry first came to the compiler’s knowledge several years ago, it seemed well not to reprint such early, apprentice work. At that time Faulkner’s great, mature books had not yet won the Nobel Prize; and though readers were admiring them in increasing numbers, many established critics still held them in low regard. But now Faulkner, widely recognized as a major world writer, has such stature that even his earliest works are of interest to many. And it seems well to reprint them now in the hope of avoiding confusion like that which some time ago accompanied the various reprintings of the sketches which Faulkner had written in 1925 for a New Orleans newspaper, The Times-Picayune, as the first fiction for which he received payment. During the same year in which I came upon and postponed reprinting these University of Mississippi pieces I had come upon those sixteen New Orleans sketches and had thought it best, because of their apprentice quality, also to postpone reprinting them. But before long other admirers of Faulkner found and published eleven of them and later found and published two more. It then seemed that it was proper to bring out the complete set of sixteen New Orleans sketches—and that postponing their reprinting had clearly not been a service to Faulkner studies after all. The situation has begun to repeat itself with Faulkner’s University of Mississippi prose and poetry, fragments of which are already being reprinted. So, with close students of Faulkner all over the world interested in the whole body of his work, it now seems proper to publish this compilation.

      In addition to the works which Faulkner prepared for publication at his University, this volume reprints not only a poem which he published in the New Orleans Double Dealer during 1922 while he was still at the University of Mississippi but, in an appendix, four works which he published in that same literary magazine during 1925 shortly after leaving the University for New Orleans : two critical essays which bear on his University writings, and two poems—Dying Gladiator and The Faun—which he published before his first novel and which are not included among the poems he later collected in A Green Bough. These pieces from the Double Dealer were among the items reprinted in 1932 by Mr. Paul Romaine in Salmagundi, which is unfortunately no longer in print.

      The preparation of this British edition has given me, fittingly enough, an opportunity to correct in the introduction an erroneous statement, which has been severely pointed out, concerning the name of the British military aviation service at the time of Faulkner’s enlistment. Shortly before that time the Royal Flying Corps and the Navy’s air arm had been combined and renamed the Royal Air Force, but because his first uniform in 1918 had borne the words Royal Flying Corps at the shoulder and because a photographic studio in Toronto had put those same words at the base of a portrait which Faulkner mailed home to Mississippi, I assumed that Royal Flying Corps was still a name in official use when Faulkner enlisted. It is pleasant to have this opportunity to correct that mistake as well as to correct the previous edition’s reversal of one of the portraits. But the pleasantest aspect of this edition for me is that it will be brought out by a firm which bears the name of a man most generous through the years with information and help : the late Mr. Jonathan Cape, who in 1929, with his equally perceptive partner in the firm of Jonathan Cape and Harrison Smith, published Faulkner’s first—and possibly finest—masterpiece, The Sound and the Fury.

      The many people whose reminiscences, advice, and general assistance have made possible the gathering of these and similar materials already know my full awareness of the debt I owe them, which I look forward to acknowledging in detail elsewhere. Here I will take the opportunity to thank only those who supplied the documents, sanctions, and professional services on which this compilation immediately depends : the staffs of The Mississippian newspaper and the Ole Miss annual for their generosity and cooperation; Mr. George W. Healy, Jr., and the late Dr. Raymond B. Zeller, former Editors of The Scream, and Mr. Branham Hume, former Business Manager of that magazine, for their support and openhanded offering of drawings and details of publishing history; Mrs. Lillian Friend Marcus, Managing Editor of the Double Dealer, for her kind permission to reprint three of William Faulkner’s poems and two of his essays from that magazine; Dr. Leon Picon of the United States Embassy in Japan, who contributed so much in 1955 to the success of the Nagano seminar, for information and advice; Mrs. William Ferguson for perceptive critical judgments about the relation between some of Faulkner’s poems and their French sources; Mr. Robert Sprich for effective research assistance; Mrs. John Pilkington for generous and efficient checking of Mississippi documents; the staffs of the libraries at the University of Mississippi, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, Harvard University, and Yale University for help of many kinds; Mr. Peter Scott and his staff of the Microreproduction Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for reproductions of illustrations and for skillful photographic salvaging of burned manuscript pages; the staff of the office which registers the deeds of Lafayette County, Mississippi, for unflagging patience during my examination of their file of Oxford newspapers; as well as the staff of the Oxford Eagle for assistance far beyond the call of hospitality. And because it was a great pleasure to assemble the original edition of this volume, from materials taken to Japan in 1961 as seminar illustrations with no thought of publishing them there as a book, I want to thank those Japanese students who urged its immediate publication out of their admiration for William Faulkner.

      c. c.

      Cambridge, Massachusetts

      April, 1963

      Contents

      Preface

      Faulkner at the University of Mississippi

      L’Apres-Midi d’un Faune

      Cathay

      Landing in Luck

      Sapphics

      After Fifty Years

      Une Ballade des Femmes Perdues

      Naiads’ Song

      Fantoches

      Clair de Lune

      Streets

      A Poplar

      A Clymène

      Study

      Alma Mater

      To

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