Robert Bly dissing Walt Whitman?? 🙅🏻‍♂️

Today we are discussing Robert Bly's thoughts on Walt Whitman! There are no video/audio recording of Robert Bly talking about Whitman, so all we have is his essay "My Doubts about Whitman" in his book of essays on poetry "Looking for Dragon Smoke." We will go over Bly's four praises of Whitman and his five criticisms of Whitman!