Title: Poëtes à venir
Author(s): Walt Whitman, Jules Laforgue
Date: 28 June 1886
Whitman Archive ID: med.00481
Source: "Poëtes à venir." Tr. Jules Laforgue. La Vogue 10 (28 June 1886), 325–328. Transcribed from a digital image of an original issue. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of translations, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note(s): This translation of "Poets to Come" was published within a cluster of poems titled "Les Brins d'Herbes" in La Vogue (28 June 1886). Laforgue's translation is based on the final form of the poem as it appeared in Leaves of Grass. For more on Laforgue's translation, see Eric Athenot, "Whitman futur, ou l'avenir à venir: 'Poets to Come' in French Translation."
Contributors to digital file: Elizabeth Lorang, Blake Bronson-Bartlett, Vanessa Steinroetter, Janel Cayer, and Caterina Bernardini
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