Title: Dichter der Zukunft
Author(s): Walt Whitman, Johannes Schlaf
Date: 1907
Whitman Archive ID: med.00476
Source: "Dichter der Zukunft." Grashalme. Tr. Johannes Schlaf (Leipzig: Reclam, 1907). 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): Schlaf's version of "Poets to Come" appears in one of the most popular book-length German translations of Leaves of Grass still in print in the twenty-first century. It is based on the final form of the poem as it appeared in Leaves of Grass. For more on Schlaf'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, John Schwaninger, and Elizabeth Lorang
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