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...WILLIAM FAULKNER: ESSAYS,SPEECHES AND PUBLIC LETTERS, edited by James 8. Meriwether. 233 pages. Random House...
Since the deaths of Faulkner and Hemingway, John O'Hara is unquestionably the most famous of living American novelists. Yet he is notoriously discontented with this grudgingly conceded eminence; he is given to complaints that he never won the highbrow vote or the Nobel Prize. And critics who find his work unsatisfactory put him into a considerable swivet...
...MARBLE FAUN AND A GREEN BOUGH by William Faulkner. 118 pages. Random House...
Great men sometimes have idiot children. Novelist William Faulkner, for instance, produced two volumes of verse. Republished under one cover after being out of print for several decades, they made an arrestingly gruesome twosome. The Marble Faun, written when Faulkner was 21, is a dollop of schoolboyish Shelley-shallying in which Pan and Philomel pipe and warble, and every other word is ah or ye or 'neath or hark. A Green Bough, published when he was 36 and should have known better, seems on the contrary the work of a village Eliot...
Clearly, verse was not Faulkner's form; but talent will out. Here and there beneath these slight conventional measures, the primeval force that fills the novels flexes disturbingly, like an anaconda in organdy...