Max Cavitch is Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of American Elegy: The Poetry of Mourning from the Puritans to Whitman (2007). He has published essays on a variety of topics in the journals American Literary History, American Literature, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Early American Literature, Senses of Cinema, Screen, and Victorian Poetry, and is a member of the collaboration committee of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychiatry.
This well-edited and attractive volume, combined with the Oxford World's Classics edition of Leaves of Grass, would serve as an excellent pair of texts for classes largely devoted to Whitman. * Ed Folsom, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review *