Thursday, February 23, 2012

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of the Rossetti edition of Leaves of Grass

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of the Rossetti edition of Leaves of Grass,
http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/index.html and the original TEI files as follows:


·  Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Austin, Alfred" and changed title of journal, "Temple Bar" to its full name, "Temple Bar: A London Magazine for Town and Country Readers" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00195.html as identified in the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.


· Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Earle, John Charles" and changed title of review from "Poems by Walt Whitman" to "Poems by Walt Whitman [Part 1]" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00197.html according to the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.


· Changed author name "Anonymous" to "Earle, John Charles" and changed title of review from "Poems by Walt Whitman" to "Poems by Walt Whitman [Part 2]" on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/poems/anc.00198.html according to the Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals.

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of 1860 Leaves of Grass

Changed Index of Contemporary Reviews of 1860 Leaves of Grass, http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/index.html and the original TEI files for each review as follows:


Changed author from [Anonymous] to [Call, Wathen Mark Wilks] on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00050.html because the Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals lists Call as the contributor of this review.

Changed the name of the periodical from London Review to its full name, the London Review and Weekly Journal of Politics, Society, Literature, and Art on http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/leaves1860/anc.00235.html. According to the Wellesley Index of Victorian Periodicals, the London Review was actually a different periodical in existence for one year only—1829.

--Bev Rilett

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Typo corrected in Civil War letter

The typo "snood" in the Letter from Fred B. McReady to Walt Whitman, 29 April 1863 has been changed to "snoot." The phrase now reads: "when a fellowed pluged you in the snoot instead of hitting back give him another try."

~Janel

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Corrections to stylesheet and transcription files for Leaves 1891-92

User Mario Corona alerted us to the absence of the bracketed note in the display of "The Rounded Catalogue Divine Complete" (Leaves 1891-92), and an investigation turned up several similar omissions, which I traced to the stylesheet. I have added a template for authorial notes in the XSLT stylesheet. I also noticed that the horizontal separators for the couple of footnotes in the 1891-92 edition were missing, so I added the appropriate code to the TEI file and created a template in the XSLT stylesheet to display them.

~ Brett

Friday, February 10, 2012

revision made to 2 contemporary reviews of the Specimen Days and Collect (Index and corresponding TEI files)

On the Contemporary Reviews of Specimen Days (index and TEI files, I changed "Anonymous" in this entry
[Anonymous]. "[Review of Specimen Days and Collect]." Westminster Review n.s. 64 (July 1883) 287-91 to "Call, Wathen Mark Wilks" as attributed in the Wellesley Index (DNB: Wathen Mark Wilks, 1817-1890, misc. author. Venn.) Note that Call also is credited with writing an 1860 review of Leaves of Grass.
-Bev Rilett

Revision made to 3 contemporary reviews of the 1855 Leaves of Grass (Index and corresponding TEI files)


-Bev Rilett

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Italics added

The following line is italicized in Whitman's "Old Chants" on page 414 of the 1891-92 Leaves of Grass: "And name for me before thou goest each ancient poet." (See http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/LG/1891/poems/383.) This correction has been made thanks to Mario Corona's copy-editing suggestion. ~Katie Kruger