Title: Dichter der Zukunft
Author(s): Walt Whitman, Karl Federn
Date: 1904
Whitman Archive ID: med.00471
Source: "Dichter der Zukunft." Grashalme. Tr. Karl Federn (Minden i. Westf.: Bruns, 1904). 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): Federn's version of "Poets to Come" appears in the first book-length German translation of Leaves of Grass. It is based on the final form of the poem as it appeared in Leaves of Grass. For more on Federn's 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, Walter Grünzweig, Vanessa Steinroetter, and Elizabeth Lorang
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