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The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem]
William Faulkner’s The Wild Palms: A Study
By Thomas McHaney
University Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 0878050701
Published 1975
The Wild Palms: Typescript
By Thomas McHaney
Garland
Hardcover
ISBN: 082406819X
Published 1986
The Wild Palms: A Concordance to the Novel
By Kenneth L. Privratsky
UMI Research Press
ISBN: 0835710491
Published 1983
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Contents
The Title
The book was first published, against Faulkner’s
wishes, as The Wild Palms, the title of one of the novellas
in the book. His original title for the book, If I Forget Thee,
Jerusalem (which has been added to recent published editions
of the book), is derived from Psalms 137:5 in the Bible.
By the rivers of Babylon, there
we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the
midst thereof.
For there they that carried us away captive
required of us a song: and they that wasted us required of us
mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange
land?
If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right
hand forget her cunning.
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave
to the roof of my mouth; if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief
joy.
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the
days of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation
thereof.
O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed;
happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth
thy little ones against the stone.
Psalms 137:1-9 (KJV)
Names in bold face indicate major
or significant characters.
The Wild Palms
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Bradley
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Bradley, Mrs.
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Buckner (Buck)
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Buckner, Mrs. Billie (Bill)
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Callaghan
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Cofer
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Crowe
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De Montigny
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Doc
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Flint
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Gillespie
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Gower
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Hogben
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Louisa
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McCord (Mac)
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Martha
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Pete
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Ralph
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Richardson, Dr.
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Rittenmeyer, Ann
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Rittenmeyer, Charlotte
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Rittenmeyer, Charlotte (Mrs. Wilbourne)
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Rittenmeyer, Francis (Rat)
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Wilbourne, Dr.
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Wilbourne, Henry (Harry)
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Old Man
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Bledsoe
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Buckworth
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Cajan, the
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Convict, the
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Hamp
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Waldrip, Mrs. Vernon
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Padgett,
John B. “The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem]:
Resources.” William Faulkner on the Web.
17 Aug. 2006.
Ed. John B. Padgett. U of Mississippi.
06 Jul. 2024
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