Re: "Debris" changes and index page for 1860

The process by which the TOC of individual poems and clusters is generated is part manual, part automated: I or someone else needs to run an XSTL stylesheet over the TEI file and then repost the resulting XML file. If no one else gets to it soon, I'll try to.

— Brett

Finding Aids / Library of Congress-Feinberg

Added new images from March re-shoot to the figures folder and updated links to new versos.

Stacey

"Debris" changes and index page for 1860

Brett,

Thanks for making the changes to "Debris." They look good. The one thing that I think still needs to be tweaked is the index page for the "etext of individual poems and clusters" view of the 1860 Leaves. The individual titles of the "Debris" aren't displaying, though the individual titles of the other clusters in the book are. Does that index page need to be manually edited? I would have thought that changing encoding would have made the titles appear.

best,
Ken




Ken,

I've just finished making changes related to Debris in the 1860 and 1867 editions. I've put a fairly extensive though not absolutely detailed note up on the new changelog blog. Besides what's there, here are a couple of things for you to consider:

- In naming the new Works, I've followed what seemed to be the model of similar things already present in the WorkIDs file. Namely, I've generally used first lines up to but not including the first comma, semicolon, or em-dash; I have not added capitalization; I have not used brackets. Three poems are worth particular attention in this regard:
"One sweeps by, attended by an immense train"
"One sweeps by, old, with black eyes, and profuse white hair"
[I used the whole first lines in these cases, to disambiguate]
"Behold"
[I used just this, even though a one-word title based on the first line seemed iffy. It is unambiguous among the Works, though, and given all of the commas in the line I'm not sure what the alternative would be.]

- The 1860 poems "Despairing cries float ceaselessly toward me" and "I understand your anguish" were both eventually folded into "Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours" (as stanzas 2 and 3, respectively). I have not created a new Work ID for either of these, believing that to be consistent with decisions we made before. I'm not completely confident about my recollection on this point, though, so if you think otherwise let me know.

Thanks,
Brett

More updates to periodicals

I've made additional small changes to the periodicals portion of the site, fixing italics and a couple of proofreading errors (of the transposed and extra letter variety).

Revised Editions Printed Outside U.S. Index Page

Small revision to http://www.whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/index.html: Last sentence of the introductory paragraph now reads, "Readers interested in the theoretical issues related to literary translations, digital archives, and Whitman may wish to consult  Matt Cohen's essay, 'Transgenic Deformation: Literary Translation and the Digital Archive.'"

Previously read, "Users may also be interested in reading Matt Cohen's essay, 'Transgenic Deformation: Literary Translation and the Digital Archive,' which discusses some of the theoretical issues related to literary translations, digital archives, and Whitman."

Essay Added

Added Matt Cohen's essay, "Transgenic Deformation: Literary Translation and the Digital Archive," to the Articles and Interviews About the Archive section of the site. We also now link to this essay from the index page of Editions Printed Outside the U.S.

~Liz

"Beat! Beat! Drums!" Periodical Printing Updated

Whitman's Poems in Periodicals now features the Harper's Weekly printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" as the poem's first publication. I have taken down the Boston Daily Evening Transcript printing, revised the Harper's Weekly headnote, and revised the transcription of the poem according to the Harper's Weekly printing. A page image of the poem is forthcoming. The publication information following the transcription now includes the following note, in explanation of the change:

Publication Information
"Beat! Beat! Drums!."  Harper's Weekly  5 (28 September 1861):  623.  Although dated 28 September 1861, the issue of Harper's Weekly featuring Whitman's "Beat! Beat! Drums!" actually appeared one week earlier, on 21 September 1861. (See Sculley Bradley and Harold W. Blodgett, ed., Leaves of Grass: A Norton Critical Edition [New York: W. W. Norton, 1973] and Ted Genoways, Walt Whitman and the Civil War: America's Poet During the Lost Years of 1860–1862 [Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming].) The poem appeared on the same day in the weekly newspaper the New York Leader, also dated 28 September 1861. The poem was reprinted in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle on 23 September 1861 and the Boston Daily Evening Transcript on 24 September 1861. The Brooklyn Daily Eagle printing includes the attribution, "From Harper's Weekly." In the following weeks, the poem appeared in numerous other newspapers throughout the United States. Whitman included the poem, with slight revision, in Drum-Taps (1865).

~Liz