Lionel Trilling

Corbis Poet Allen Tate (1899-1979), an exponent of the New Criticism Some of the critics of the period -- figures such as Lionel Trilling and Edmund Wilson -- emphasized the connections between a writer's life and his work or between the work and the political and cultural world of which it was a part.

When Lit-Crit Mattered James Seaton 2008

Gloria and Lionel Abel had invited me to go with them to the annual Lionel Trilling lecture: Professor Yerushalami was giving the main speech -- "Facing Evil: the Shoah and Primo Levi".

Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware Barbara Probst Solomon 2011

We should keep reading Lionel Trilling, and we should emulate him.

The Last of His Kind Ian Marcus Corbin 2011

A bumper crop of serious thinkers—Lionel Trilling, Hannah Arendt, George Orwell—helped the West to think its way through and beyond some of its darkest days.

The Last of His Kind Ian Marcus Corbin 2011

For a dollar or two, I was privileged to look over the shoulders of the intelligentsia of the day – Lionel Trilling, Stephen Spender, Hannah Arendt, Alfred Kazin et al – as they went at one another over important issues such as the Eichmann trial and/or more trivial pursuits as to who slept with whom on a particular Bloomsbury weekend or who was still a Stalinist after the purge trials of 1937.

John Brockman: the man who runs the world's smartest website 2012

Gloria and Lionel Abel had invited me to go with them to the annual Lionel Trilling lecture: Professor Yerushalami was giving the main speech -- "Facing Evil: the Shoah and Primo Levi".

Barbara Probst Solomon: Larry Rivers After Crossing His Delaware Barbara Probst Solomon 2011

Dave Plunkert Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Dwight Macdonald, J.D. Salinger, Paul Goodman, William Burroughs and other bohemian culture heroes were among his followers: examples of what Lionel Trilling unsettlingly called "the moral urgency, the sense of crisis and the concern with personal salvation that mark the existence of American intellectuals."

Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

Only 40 or 50 years ago, English departments attracted men and women who wrote books of general intellectual interest and had names known outside the academy—Perry Miller, Aileen Ward, Walter Jackson Bate, Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Joseph Wood Krutch, Lionel Trilling, one could name a dozen or so others—but no longer.

What Killed American Lit. Joseph Epstein 2011

Dave Plunkert Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Dwight Macdonald, J.D. Salinger, Paul Goodman, William Burroughs and other bohemian culture heroes were among his followers: examples of what Lionel Trilling unsettlingly called "the moral urgency, the sense of crisis and the concern with personal salvation that mark the existence of American intellectuals."

Thinking Inside the Box Henry Allen 2011

Others soon joined the parade, among them Lionel Trilling, Clifton Fadiman, Philip Rahv and Leon Edel—Jews, one might say, not for Jesus but for James.

The Afterlife of the Lion Joseph Epstein 2012