Title: Dichter, die kommen sollen
Author(s): Walt Whitman, Karl Knortz, T. W. Rolleston
Date: 1889
Whitman Archive ID: med.00472
Source: "Dichter, die kommen sollen." Grashalme. Tr. Karl Knortz and T. W. Rolleston (Zürich: Schabelitz, 1889). 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): Knortz and Rolleston'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, Walter Grünzweig, Elizabeth Lorang, and John Schwaninger
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