The Marble Faun

The Marble Faun, by William Faulkner, with a preface by Phil Stone, although not a completely successful work, is a book of verse rich in promise, and successful in part. This poem was written when Faulkner was barely of voting age. It is the forerunner of a more mature volume of shorter poems. Later on, Faulkner switched to writing fiction which made him famous for the classics he produced.


“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing." - William Faulkner