author's name added to review

While working on annotations for the Reconstruction-era correspondence, Zachary King at the University of Iowa noticed that Edwin Haviland Miller identifies the author of a review of Drum-Taps, published in the Commonwealth of 24 February 1866, as Franklin Benjamin Sanborn. The review was presented on the Whitman Archive as by "[Anonymous]." I checked the bibliography of criticism and noted that Sanborn is acknowledged elsewhere as the author of the review (including in Giantvalley and in Lee Gougeon's 1992 article in WWQR), so I updated the author information in the TEI file and on the index page of reviews of Drum-Taps.

~Liz

transcription error fixed in 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass

Ken pointed out that our transcription of the poem title "Liberty Poem for Asia, Africa, Europe, America, Australia, Cuba, and The Archipelagoes of the Sea" mistranscribed "archipelagoes" as "archipelogoes" in the body of the 1856 edition of Leaves of Grass. I've fixed the error.

~Liz

Portuguese translation added

I have added the Portuguese translation to the Whitman Archive's translation section and created an index page that links to the essay "Whitman in Brazil" by Maria Clara Bonetti Paro. A Portuguese translation of the introductory page is currently not available but forthcoming. The main index page to the translation section has been modified to reflect some of the changes discussed at the translation symposium in Iowa City, though the homepage's general structure has not been changed yet.

--Vanessa

Error fixed in 1860 Calamus poem 35

I have added a missing "é" in line 5 of Calamus poem 35 in the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass. Thanks to Mario Corona for pointing out the missing final letter in "exalté."

--Vanessa

Review of "Poems of Walt Whitman" added

I added a review of Poems of Walt Whitman from The Australasian, July 4, 1868.  The review can be found here:

http://whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/tei/anc.01048.html

--Ashley

Transcription error fixed in three reviews

I have corrected a transcription error that was pointed out to us by a Whitman Archive user and that we were able to trace to three separate reviews of Two Rivulets:

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/rivulets/anc.00201.html
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/rivulets/anc.00203.html
http://www.whitmanarchive.org/criticism/reviews/rivulets/anc.00200.html

In each case, there was a typo in the fifth line of the poem "The Beauty of the Ship," and I corrected "at least the beauty" to read "at last the beauty."

--Vanessa

Publicity video added to the Whitman Archive

I have added the 2004 publicity video about the Whitman Archive created by University Communications to the site. The video is available from the Articles and Interviews about the Archive page or directly here.

~Liz