‚Wir sind viele‘. Zum Konzept dichterischer Kollektivrede bei Goethe, Ralph Waldo Emerson und Walt Whitman Beitrag Kai Sina Comparatio, Volume 5 (2014), Issue 2, Page 181 - 203 [...] The following article explores in how far and to what extent Johann Wolfgang Goethe has influenced Walt Whitman’s poetic concepts, notably his notion of authorship. The investigation focuses on the concept of poetic language as a form of collective speech, as it is conceived of and amplified in the late self-characterizations and -commentaries of Goethe as well as in Whitman’s poetological, [...]