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Sang the King of Midian

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StateFinished / professionalSurviving witnesses1TSS catalogue units1Catalogue rolePrimary / default
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Characters in this exact text

Exhaustively reviewed for this catalogued Poetry state. Generic lyric speakers/addressees, collectives, places and purely metaphorical allusions are not manufactured into permanent Characters.

AstairAstair — woman addressed by the King of MidianOn Page7 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 133King of Midianthe King of Midian — first-person king who raised Astair from slave to queenOn Page1 source-counted occurrence(s) · first: Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 133

Surviving manuscript evidence

The records below describe surviving physical typescripts, carbons, manuscript material and documentary catalogue evidence for this exact textual state. TSS numbers identify physical catalogue units; they are not story or draft IDs.

Original Howard typescript — TSS 82563Howard typescript
Extent1 pageCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: 1 catalogued TSS sheet

TSS: 82563

Original Typescript (OT) from the retained TSS catalogue.

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls — Poetry working list rows 674–674

Textual witnesses & editorial mediation

These records describe how this textual state is known or represented. A witness may be authorial, editorially mediated, restored, transcribed or otherwise derived without becoming a new Howard-authored textual state.

Collected Poetry UE Vol. 1 p. 133Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 1 p. 133

Published in

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume OneREH Foundation PressOctober 2022↗