Small Revisions to Blue Book Encyclopedia Entry

On about 10 September I revised the encyclopedia XML file so that the title of the entry about the Blue Book now reads: Walt Whitman's Blue Book (was: Walt Whitman's Blue Book (1968). I also revised the last sentence of the entry, which began "One can now follow Whitman's advice . . . ." It now begins "Both the print facsimile edition and the Whitman Archive online edition now allow one to follow Whitman's advice . . . ." Both changes were proposed by Ed Folsom.

~ Brett

publication information slightly revised for periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!"

I've slightly revised the wording and punctuation of the publication information for the periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" following suggestions from Ken.

--Liz

"After the argument"--tweaking of a poetry manuscript

I noticed we lacked a space between "rippling" and "water" in our transcription. Thanks go to Brett for fixing this yesterday.
--Ken

revision to Encyclopedia entry for the 1855 Leaves

About ten days ago, Brett posted a revised version of Ivan Marki's encyclopedia entry on the 1855 Leaves of Grass. Ed Folsom updated the entry taking account of many new discoveries.
--Ken

mistranscription in "The Wound-Dresser," Leaves of Grass (1881-82) fixed

In the 1881-82 edition of Leaves of Grass, we had mistranscribed an instance of the word soldiers' as soldier's in "The Wound-Dresser." I have fixed this error, which was pointed out by an Archive user.

~Liz

error in transcription of periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" fixed

The transcription of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" duplicated the word "his" in line five. I've fixed this error in the WWA transcription. In addition, I've updated the bibliographic information for the Genoways volume referenced in the publication history section. Genoways' work was listed as "forthcoming," which I've changed to "2010."

~Liz

typo in "Beat! Beat! Drums!" corrected

A Whitman Archive user directed our attention to a typo in our transcription of the periodical printing of "Beat! Beat! Drums!" In the first stanza, "congregation" had been mistranscribed as "congregagation." I've fixed the error.

~Liz