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.