[Next Project] Poetry, by Robert Louis Stevenson

[ʗharlie ßowman]

After wrapping up The Princess and Curdie, I'd like to tackle the poetry of Robert L. Stevenson.

• Spreadsheet
• Repository

Primary sources:

• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 14 (scans transcripts)
• The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 28 (scans transcripts)
• New Poems And Variant Readings (scans transcript)
• Poems Hitherto Unpublished (scans transcript)

For the cover, I propose Boys Playing on the Shore by Albert Edelfel.

[Alex Cabal]

OK, sounds good. Vince will manage with David reviewing.

On 3/7/26 9:10 AM, ʗharlie ßowman wrote:
> After wrapping up /The Princess and Curdie/, I'd like to tackle the

> poetry of Robert L. Stevenson.
>

> * Spreadsheet <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
> d/1nzlTNzevdhyHr5RgpFPno_BNBuiLDjbmr0M2ughOABk/edit?usp=sharing>
> * Repository <https://github.com/cbbowman/robert-louis-stevenson_poetry>
>
>
> *Primary sources*:
>
> * The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 14 (scans <https://
> archive.org/details/worksofrobertlou14stev/> transcripts <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30659>)
> * The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Volume 28 (scans <https://
> archive.org/details/worksofrobertlvol28stev> transcripts <https://
> www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31291>)
> * New Poems And Variant Readings (scans <https://archive.org/details/
> newpoemsandvaria00stevuoft> transcript <https://www.gutenberg.org/
> ebooks/441>)
> * Poems Hitherto Unpublished (scans <https://archive.org/details/
> poemshithertounp00stevrich> transcript <https://en.wikisource.org/
> wiki/Poems,_by_Robert_Louis_Stevenson,_hitherto_unpublished>)
>
> For the cover, I propose /Boys Playing on the Shore/ <https://
> standardebooks.org/artworks/albert-edelfelt/boys-playing-on-the-
> shore> by Albert Edelfel.
>
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[Charles B Bowman]

Vince, first question:

 

• New Poems And Variant Readings has a few instances where two versions of part of a line are stacked on top of each other ( example page 134). How should I style this?

 

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[Vince Rice]

I’m headed out for the evening, but please provide a link to the page (not just the book), and I’ll look at it tomorrow.

[Charles B Bowman]

Page 134

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[Emma Sweeney]

I encountered something similar in Don Juan.

<p>
<span>He had been ill brought up, <span class="variant">besides was<br/>
besides being</span> bilious.</span>
</p>

[epub|type~="z3998:verse"] span.variant{
border-left: 1px solid;
border-radius: 5px;
border-right: 1px solid;
display: inline-block;
padding: 0 .5em 0 .5em;
text-indent: 0;
vertical-align: middle;
}

Emma

[ʗharlie ßowman]

I think that is just what I need. Thanks Emma!

[ʗharlie ßowman]

This is ready for review.

Robert Louis Stevenson — Poetry repository

A few production notes:

1) Stevenson's earliest poem collection, Moral Emblems, includes woodcuts carved by the author. Some of these (example) are purely decorative, which have been cut. Others, which are directly referenced by their corresponding poems (example,) have been converted to SVG and were included as full-page illustrations.

2) The sources included footnotes, with good contextual information. These have been converted to endnotes. A few of the footnotes did not have a corresponding noteref number. For these, I added a noteref to the title of the poem.

3) Poems Hitherto Unpublished includes preface material before each poem. These have been cut.

4) se lint is suggesting a "V." given name initial be lowercased. This has been added to the se-lint-ignore file.

5) se lint is suggesting two lines should not end with a hyphen. As the scans show this is how it was published, these errors have been added to the se-lint-ignore file.

6) Several poems are written in Scots. These have been excluded, and noted in the spreadsheet.

[Alex Cabal]

Did you fully proofread all of these? there's almost 370 individual
poems and you started just 6 days ago

On 3/13/26 10:00 PM, ʗharlie ßowman wrote:
> This is ready for review.

> Robert Louis Stevenson — Poetry repository <https://github.com/cbbowman/
> robert-louis-stevenson_poetry>
>
> A few production notes:
>
> 1) Stevenson's earliest poem collection, Moral Emblems <https://
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Emblems>, includes woodcuts carved by the
> author. Some of these (example <https://archive.org/details/
> worksofrobertlvol28stev/page/48/mode/2up>) are purely decorative, which

> have been cut. Others, which are directly referenced by their

> corresponding poems (example <https://archive.org/details/
> worksofrobertlvol28stev/page/10/mode/2up>,) have been converted to SVG

> and were included as full-page illustrations.
>
> 2) The sources included footnotes, with good contextual information.
> These have been converted to endnotes. A few of the footnotes did not
> have a corresponding noteref number. For these, I added a noteref to the
> title of the poem.
>

> 3) Poems Hitherto Unpublished <https://archive.org/details/
> poemshithertounp00stevrich> includes preface material before each poem.

> These have been cut.
>
> 4) se lint is suggesting a "V." given name initial be lowercased. This
> has been added to the se-lint-ignore file.
>
> 5) se lint is suggesting two lines should not end with a hyphen. As the
> scans show this is how it was published, these errors have been added to
> the se-lint-ignore file.
>
> 6) Several poems are written in Scots. These have been excluded, and

> noted in the spreadsheet <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/
> d/1nzlTNzevdhyHr5RgpFPno_BNBuiLDjbmr0M2ughOABk/edit?usp=sharing>.

>
> On Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 10:32:49 PM UTC-5 ʗharlie ßowman wrote:
>
> I think that is just what I need. Thanks Emma!
>
> On Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 10:29:43 PM UTC-5 Emma Sweeney wrote:
>

> I encountered something similar in /Don Juan <https://
> github.com/EmmaSweeney/lord-byron_don-juan/blob/main/src/epub/
> text/endnotes.xhtml#L393>/.

>
> <p>
> <span>He had been ill brought up, <span class="variant">besides
> was<br/>
> besides being</span> bilious.</span>
> </p>
>
> [epub|type~="z3998:verse"] span.variant{
> border-left: 1px solid;
> border-radius: 5px;
> border-right: 1px solid;
> display: inline-block;
> padding: 0 .5em 0 .5em;
> text-indent: 0;
> vertical-align: middle;
> }
>

> Screenshot from 2026-03-07 22-25-48.png
>
>
> Emma
> On Saturday, March 7, 2026 at 5:12:06 PM UTC-5
> c.b.b...@gmail.com wrote:
>

> Page 134 <https://archive.org/details/
> newpoemsandvaria00stevuoft/page/n153/mode/1up>

> On Mar 7, 2026 at 17:08 -0500, Vince Rice
> <vr_se...@letterboxes.org>, wrote:
>
> I’m headed out for the evening, but please provide a
> link to the page (not just the book), and I’ll look at
> it tomorrow.
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2026, at 4:05 PM, Charles B Bowman
> <c.b.b...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Vince, first question:
>

> * New Poems And Variant Readings <https://
> archive.org/details/newpoemsandvaria00stevuoft>

> has a few instances where two versions of part
> of a line are stacked on top of each other
> ( example page 134). How should I style this?
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[ʗharlie ßowman]

Yes. I started working on this about two weeks ago, and have been proofreading this past week, fixing some things as I found them. It's a lot of poems, but most of them are very short (only about 67k words total) so I certainly don't mind giving it one final pass before handing it off. 

[David]

Okay - let me know when your "ready-ready", then. I've got one in the queue for this weekend, so it will be a few days anyway until I get to it.

If there's any update to the welcome production notes, do let me know.

[Charles Bowman]

My wife recently had our second child, so that has consumed 100% of my time lately.

I have finished proofreading. I also pushed some changes to update the project to the 3.0.4 toolset.

Off to you, David.

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[David]

Congratulations! I hope everyone's flourishing with the arrival of #2! :)

I should be able to get to the review in the next couple days.

[David]

Nice work on a complex production! There's now a review up, Charlie.

Could you ping me from GitHub if there are any matters arising? or let me know when you're done. Thanks!

[David]

This is now ready for you, Alex.

https://github.com/cbbowman/robert-louis-stevenson_poetry

[Alex Cabal]

This ebook was produced by C. B. Bowman. Thanks C. B.!

Ebook URL: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/robert-louis-stevenson/poetry

GitHub URL: https://github.com/standardebooks/robert-louis-stevenson_poetry

[Alex Cabal]

OK, looks good. Great work CB, thanks! I've released it!

On 5/28/26 6:31 AM, David wrote:
> This is now ready for you, Alex.
>
> https://github.com/cbbowman/robert-louis-stevenson_poetry
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[Charles Bowman]

Thanks Alex! I found a name initial 'V' labelled by semanticate as
'roman' and flagged it on github.

[Chris Spurgeon]

Tiny typo in the long description. Added a note in github.