The music -- The past -- Beginnings -- Vision -- Depths -- The man before the poems -- Self-made -- The notebooks -- Emerson and the greatest poet -- The greatest poet submits a poem for publication -- "I" -- A dare -- "You" -- America -- The modern, one : Baudelaire -- Hugo and Longfellow-- The modern, two : Eliot and Pound -- Others -- The body -- Sex -- Woman -- Lorca, Ginsberg, and "The faggots" -- Nature -- Prophets -- Imagination -- Mortality -- Mortality again -- The sad captain -- Lines -- The voice -- Life after -- What he teaches us.