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Walt Whitman

1819 – 1892 · United States · Literature

Leaves of Grass invented American poetic voice.

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  • Bob Dylan

    1941 · Literature

    The American vernacular catalogue is the line Dylan's songwriting extends.

  • Federico García Lorca

    1898 – 1936 · Literature

    'Ode to Walt Whitman' in Poet in New York records the debt.

  • Fernando Pessoa

    1888 – 1935 · Literature

    Álvaro de Campos is Pessoa's Whitmanian heteronym.

  • Pablo Neruda

    1904 – 1973 · Literature

    Neruda names Whitman his teacher; the American catalogue becomes the Canto General.

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