REH’s Writings

Exact textual stateText

Tarentella

StateYouthful writingSurviving witnesses2TSS catalogue units4Catalogue rolePrimary / default

Textual identity is not textual authority. “Catalogue primary/default” selects the default catalogue representation; it does not mean that this wording is automatically Howard’s most authoritative text.

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.

No qualifying individual Characters or named entities were found in this exact textual state.

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.

Published-page witness — Daniel Baker Collegian, May 25, 1926 · negativeOther physical witness

Extent2 pagesCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: top and bottom portions of the publication page

TSS: 15770–15771

Negative/reproduction of the Daniel Baker Collegian page shared with Futility (2).

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Poetry working list · Tarentella / Futility (2, Time races on) (pub1) · TSS 15770–15771

Published-page witness — Daniel Baker Collegian, May 25, 1926 · TAMU scansOther physical witness

Extent2 pagesCompletenessCompleteness uncertain

Physical extent: first and second portions of the publication page

TSS: 82428, 82676

TAMU publication-page scans shared with Futility (2).

Source: 000 TSS of REH moving towards final.xls · Poetry working list · Tarentella / Futility (2, Time races on) (pub1) · TSS 82428, 82676

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. 2 p. 384Restored reading editionAuthority basis: Restoration toward authorial text · Treatment: Restored toward authorial wording

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard UE Vol. 2 p. 384

Published in

The Collected Poetry of Robert E. Howard Volume TwoREH Foundation PressNovember 2022↗