Title: Den kommenden Dichtern
Author(s): Walt Whitman, Else Bestian, Hans Bestian
Date: 1985
Whitman Archive ID: med.00469
Source: "Den kommenden Dichtern." Ein Kosmos. Tr. Else Bestian and Hans Bestian (Schwifting: Schwiftinger Galerie-Verlag, 1985). Transcribed from a digital image of a print original. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of translations, see our statement of editorial policy.
Editorial note(s): Else and Hans Bestian's translation is based on the final form of the poem as it appeared in Leaves of Grass. For more on their translation, see Walter Grünzweig and Vanessa Steinroetter, "'Leaving it to you to prove and define': 'Poets to Come' and Whitman's German Translators."
Contributors to digital file: Mitja Grünzweig, Vanessa Steinroetter, John Schwaninger, and Elizabeth Lorang
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