Addition to Russian Translations section

Lisa Renfro's translation of the Elena Evitch article "Walt Whitman in Russian Translations: Whitman's 'Footprint' in Russian Poetry" is now available via the index page of the Russian translations. Evitch's essay accompanies Stephen Stepanchev's chapter on Whitman in Russia (which was already available on the site) to provide a broad introduction to Russian translations of Whitman.

The addition of the essay prompted a slight redesign and rewording of the index page to the Russian translations. I've revised the wording of the second paragraph, and I created a new category titled "Introduction and context," which links to the Stepanchev and Evitch pieces.

~Liz

revision to New York Aurora headnote

In consultation with Susan, I have revised the final sentence of the headnote for the New York Aurora (Poems in Periodicals) from "Whitman published two poems in the Aurora but left his position as editor by mid-May, following disagreements with the publishers over their efforts to shape his editorials" to "Whitman published two poems in the Aurora but left his position as editor by late April, following disagreements with the publishers over their efforts to shape his editorials." This change more accurately reflects the timeline of Whitman's association with the newspaper as set out in The Journalism and as reflected by the dates of his contributions to the paper.

~Liz

selected articles from WWQR now linked from Bibliography

Selected articles from WWQR are now available as PDFs, linked from the Bibliography of Criticism. At present, we are able to link to articles from the Summer 06, Winter/Spring 06-07, Summer 07, Fall 07, Winter 07, and Winter 2008 issues. If a user performs a search that returns an item from WWQR from this issue range, the citation will be followed by a link that reads "Full text available," as in the following example.

Walkiewicz, Kathryn. "Portraits and Politics: the Specter of Osceola in Leaves of Grass." Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 25 (Winter 2008), 108-115. [Examines Whitman's "Osceola" and discovers the poem is a result of the poet's "piecing and pasting" his lines out of bits of George Catlin's description of Osceola and Catlin's recording of Dr. Frederick Weedon's account of Osceola's final days; argues that Osceola "remains merely symbolic for Whitman--a text to read and interpret."] [2008] Full text available.

Clicking "Full text available" will open a PDF of the article in the browser.

We will continue to add links to articles as we are able to create PDFs. We may also revise how the PDF opens (whether it should open in the browser or as a download).

~Liz