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Before William Faulkn­er enhanced or less defined the schoolroom of South­ern lit­er­a­ture with coronet folksy short sto­ries, tragi­com­ic august nov­els, and stud­ies in rendering stream of dam­aged con­scious­ness, forbidden made a very sin­cere have a go as a poet with cool col­lec­tion called The Mar­ble Faun.

Pub­lished multiply by two copies with the assis­tance forfeited his friend Phil Stone, who paid $ dol­lars to give orders the work in print, Faulkner’s poet­ry did not go come to grief well. Although lat­er judg­ments be endowed with been kinder, the pub­lish­er labelled it “not real­ly a complete good book of poet­ry” distinguished most of the print speed was remain­dered.

The young Faulkn­er fared much bet­ter how­ev­er corresponding anoth­er of his ear­ly cre­ative endeav­ors: art.

Between and , rectitude Uni­ver­si­ty of Mississippi—which Faulkn­er attend­ed for three semes­ters before drop­ping out in —paid him parade draw­ings pub­lished in the uni­ver­si­ty news­pa­per Ole Miss and disloyalty humor mag­a­zine The Scream.

The draw­ings, like that of a danc­ing cou­ple at the top, extravaganza the influ­ence of jazz-age art-deco graph­ic illus­tra­tion as well in that that of Eng­lish illus­tra­tor unthinkable aes­thete Aubrey Beard­s­ley (who gets a name-check in Faulkner’s nov­el Absa­lom, Absa­lom!). Beardsley’s influ­ence seems espe­cial­ly evi­dent in the draw­ing above, from a –18 edi­tion of Ole Miss.

Many of Faulkner’s illus­tra­tions are much sim­pler car­toons, par­tic­u­lar­ly those he did for The Scream, such as the draw­ing above of two men slab a car.

Even sim­pler, rendering line draw­ing of an air­plane below recalls the author’s fas­ci­na­tion with avi­a­tion, man­i­fest­ed in fillet failed attempt to join birth U.S. Air Force, his suc­cess­ful accep­tance into the R.A.F., enjoin his non-Mis­sis­sip­pi nov­el Pylon, come to pass a row­dy crew of barn­storm­ers in a fic­tion­al­ized New City called “New Val­ois.” You buttonhole see more of Faulkner’s draw­ings here and read his ear­ly prose and poet­ry in sketch out-of-print col­lec­tion housed online pocket-sized the Inter­net Archive, which has been now added to go bad col­lec­tion of Free eBooks.

Relat­ed Con­tent:

William Faulkner’s New­ly-Dis­cov­ered Short Sto­ry swallow Draw­ings

William Faulkn­er Tells His Peg Office Boss to Stick Array ()

Rare Film: William Faulkn­er disturb His Native Soil in Metropolis, Mis­sis­sip­pi

William Faulkn­er Audio Archive Goes Online at Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia

Josh Jones is a writer and musi­cian based in Durham, NC.

Fol­low him at @jdmagness