Whitman
Previous sixteen posts in this series on Marilynne Robinson and Annie Dillard, super duper genius writer people.
Two things I can’t escape: Walt Whitman is a massive and inescapable influence on both Robinson and Dillard, as he is at least indirectly upon most American writers since the late nineteenth century. He arouses my intense irritation and distrust. The thing that makes him interesting, that makes him important, is the same thing that irritates me: