William Faulkner, Soldier's Pay

Thomas Dasher (Berry College)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Nicole Kennedy (University of Newcastle), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1926

Places

United States (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

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Soldiers’ Pay,

William Faulkner’s first novel, was published on 25 February 1926 by Boni & Liveright of New York. As Cleanth Brooks points out, “though technically

Soldiers’ Pay

is not one of the Yoknapatawpha County novels, in setting and atmosphere and in the kind of people to be met with in it, it is not dissimilar” (98).

Composition and Publication

Composition and Publication

Faulkner first envisioned himself as a poet. His first nationally published work was a poem and his first book, The Marble Faun (1924), was a cycle of pastoral poems heavily influenced by the French Symbolists and British poets such as Swinburne and Housman.

Faulkner first envisioned himself as a poet. His first nationally published work was a poem and his first book,

The Marble Faun

(1924), was a cycle of…

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Citation: Dasher, Thomas. "Soldier's Pay". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 23 April 2025 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1963, accessed 28 April 2025.]