Editing Walt Whitman (section)

=== Latin American poets ===
Whitman's poetry influenced Latin American and Caribbean poets in the 19th and 20th centuries, starting with Cuban poet, philosopher, and nationalist leader [[José Martí]], who published essays in Spanish on Whitman's writings in 1887.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Meyer|first=Mary Edgar|title=Walt Whitman's Popularity among Latin-American Poets|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/977855|journal=The Americas|year=1952|volume=9|issue=1|pages=3–15|doi=10.2307/977855|jstor=977855|s2cid=147381491 |issn=0003-1615|quote=Modernism, it has been said, spread the name of Whitman in Hispanic America. Credit, however, is given to Jose Marti.}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Santí|first=Enrico Mario|title=This Land of Prophets: Walt Whitman in Latin America|date=2005|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-12245-2_3|work=Ciphers of History|pages=66–83|place=New York|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan US|doi=10.1007/978-1-137-12245-2_3|isbn=978-1-4039-7046-6|access-date=November 7, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Molloy|first=S.|date=January 1, 1996|title=His America, Our America: Jose Marti Reads Whitman|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-57-2-369|journal=Modern Language Quarterly|volume=57|issue=2|pages=369–379|doi=10.1215/00267929-57-2-369|issn=0026-7929}}</ref> Álvaro Armando Vasseur's 1912 translations further raised Whitman's profile in Latin America.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last1=Cohen|first1=Matt|last2=Price, Rachel|title=Walt Whitman in Latin America and Spain: Walt Whitman Archive Translations|url=https://whitmanarchive.org/published/foreign/spanish/vasseur/introduction.html|access-date=November 7, 2020|website=whitmanarchive.org|publisher=The Walt Whitman Archive|quote=Only with Vasseur's subsequent 1912 translation did Whitman become available and important to generations of Latin American poets, from the residual modernistas to the region's major twentieth-century figures.}}</ref>  Peruvian vanguardist [[César Vallejo]], Chilean poet [[Pablo Neruda]], and Argentine [[Jorge Luis Borges]] acknowledged Walt Whitman's influence.<ref name=":0" />