... -known names, Faulkner had to make a mark for himself. Faulkner initially started out in literature with poetry. His first book, The Marble Faun, a collection of poems, was published after the World War I while he was studying at the University of Mississippi (Scott-Kilvert, 192). Faulkner then turned directions and began to write fictional novels. According to Noel Polk, "Faulkner was skillful in creating ... no attitude, excluding only the most enlightened, can solve the problems present in Faulkner's works (Bakker, 231). "For in the final analysis one does not feel let down by the boo...

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