Walt Whitman

Monday, April 14 at 9 p.m.
Repeats Wednesday, April 16 at 3 a.m.

He is one of the most-recognized figures in American literary history: poet, patriot and faithful advocate of democracy. His name graces shopping malls, highway rest stops and local high schools. But in his own time, critics denounced Walt Whitman as a “lunatic raving in pitiable delirium.”