Lecture 1. "Listener up there!": Whitman springs of the page

Lecture 2. The revolution of the first edition: Whitman's Leaves of grass

Lecture 3. Emerson, Whitman, and the beginnings of an original American literature

Lecture 4. Manhattan's son rises

Lecture 5. Sex is the root of it all

Lecture 6. Whitman's Civil War

Lecture 7. Banned in Boston: Whitman and censorship

Lecture 8. Glancing back, looking forward: Whitman and the promise of America

Lecture 9. Whitman among the moderns

Lecture 10. I, too, sing America: Black voices respond to Whitman

Lecture 11. From "Barbaric yawp" to "Howl"

Lecture 12. Whitman, visual poetics, and the New York School

Lecture 13. Singing the songs: Whitman's impact on modern American music

Lecture 14. I stop somewhere waiting for you: Whitman's enduring presence.