I have updated the link to WhitmanWeb from the translations page. I also updated the list of languages into which Whitman’s 1881 version of “Song of Myself” has been translated (on the WhitmanWeb site) to include Arabic, Kurdish, Chinese, Polish, Romanian, Malay, Cambodian, and Filipino.
Kelly Scott Franklin pointed out that the final letter had been omitted from the first name in two of the occurrences on this page. I have corrected it.
Following the model employed on the index pages for the German and Spanish Editions, I have revised the Russian Editions index page (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/russian/index.html) to link to a version of the page in Russian. Lisa Renfro translated and proofread the page. In addition, both pages are now generated from XML/TEI files, transformed with XSLT, rather than from source HTML files.
The Spanish Editions intro/index page, http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/spanish/index.html, now allows users to click through to a Spanish version of the page (a feature we recently adopted for the German editions). Matt Cohen translated the index page and provided the xhtml file.
Liz and I finished preparing the German translation by Hans Reisiger for online publication, and it has now been added to the Whitman Archive website (http://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/german/index.html). We decided to include a German translation of the introductory note, which you can access by clicking on the link in the upper right-hand corner.
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