{"id":26672,"date":"2019-06-10T06:04:59","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T03:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=26672"},"modified":"2019-06-10T06:04:59","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T03:04:59","slug":"index-to-the-verse-in-weird-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/index-to-the-verse-in-weird-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Index To The Verse In Weird Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas G.L. Cockcroft&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/CockcroftT.G.L.IndexToTheVerseInWeirdTalesPrivatelyPrinted1960?q=%22Robert+E.+Howard%22\">Index To The Verse In Weird Tales<\/a><\/em> (1960), free on Archive.org.  Also related magazine titles edited by Farnsworth Wright, such as <em>Oriental Stories<\/em> and <em>The Magic Carpet<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/poems.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/poems.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"140\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26673\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many good scans of <em>Weird Tales<\/em> can now be had free on Archive.org, but this Index should help speed up the finding of &#8216;on the original page&#8217; verse by your favourite authors.  Since it&#8217;s also effectively a keyword index to likely header illustrations, it might also be used as an index for finding illustrations by theme.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I wonder if it might be possible for an ambitious student typographer, seeking a project, to get in touch with the heirs of Thomas G.L. Cockcroft (1926-2013) and request permission to do a new properly typogrified, designed and printed version of this old stencil-duplicated <em>Index To The Verse In Weird Tales<\/em>.  Perhaps the new edition might integrate the best of the poem illustrations in the public domain, and for each poem add a line of colour-coded keywords indicating theme and symbolism\/setting?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas G.L. Cockcroft&#8217;s Index To The Verse In Weird Tales (1960), free on Archive.org. Also related magazine titles edited by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/index-to-the-verse-in-weird-tales\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}