Several poets have taken inspiration from walt whitman's style therefore he's known in literary circles across the world. how can this fused sentence be fixed

Based on the given sentence above, we can fix this fused sentence by applying the correct punctuation mark. Since the sentence is composed of two independent clauses, we should put a semicolon before the coordinating conjunction and a comma after it. So the sentence would be: Several poets have taken inspiration from Walt Whitman's style; therefore, he's known in literary circles across the world.