Expanding existing Ring Lardner poetry omnibus?

[Jon Erdman]

I recently read a book about "The Lost Journalism of Ring Lardner" which happened to reproduce and quote a number of Lardner's poems that were not mentioned in the bibliography that I used when originally researching and producing the Ring Lardner poetry omnibus. The book cited the original publication date and source, and all of them originated from the Chicago Tribune in the 1920s. Since the Chicago Tribune is very well-represented on Archive.org, they are almost certainly all there in a demonstrably public domain scan. I also have recently tracked down scans of some poems that had been on the research spreadsheet at the time of original publication, but that I couldn't find scans for at the time.

I'm trying to avoid scope-creeping the project into absurdity as he wrote for the Chicago tribune daily for several years, and I don't want to read thousands of issues to track down every ephemeral limerick that he ever wrote, but I do think works that have been cited by secondary scholarly sources are probably worth inclusion even though I didn't know about them the first time around.

Basically my question here is, would it be OK for me to submit a PR to add these new poems that I've tracked down, or do we want to consider the already-published omnibus to be "done"? If we decide that we don't want to add all of it, do we at least want to add the things that I was aware of existing at the time of original publication but simply hadn't yet found suitable scans for?

[Alex Cabal]

Yes, you can certainly submit PRs for new poems. However we do need to
confirm the publication date in the page scans before you add them. I
suggest updating the spreadsheet first with the new items and include
page scan links so we can confirm everything before you begin making a PR.

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[Jon Erdman]

OK, sounds good. That's in progress and I'll have that done soon. I am confident that the scans all exist, I just have to grab the links and update the sheet

[Jon Erdman]

OK, I have page scan links added to everything new in the sheet. I know that in the ebook metadata, we link to the publication itself on archive.org, not the specific page, but in the spreadsheet I linked the exact page because it can be tough to find in a dense newspaper scan.

As I mentioned, in my first email in this thread, this is probably not exhaustive because he wrote a daily column for eight years. But this addition of approximately twenty new poems are all ones that I saw quoted or cited in scholarly secondary sources and tracked down their original PD newspaper scans for. The citation in a secondary source seems like a good line to draw as it should weed out everything that is too ephemeral to make sense to a modern reader.

Even though they were never formally collected, I think I will put these into a grouped section in the omnibus entitled "In the Wake of the News" since that's the name of the column that all of them were published under.

Spreadsheet link for convenience:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15Di2STjDxJO1xBJmxkqgRKeKBLv7OvBE_76mX4ktRIg/edit?gid=0#gid=0

[Alex Cabal]

OK, great. The entries look good and your suggestions sound good. You
can open a PR whenever you have it wrapped up. Thanks!

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