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Lionel Trilling

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July 04, 1905 in New York NY

died

November 05, 1975

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Lionel Trilling was an American literary critic, author and teacher who, with wife Diana, was a member of the New York Intellectuals and a contributor to the Partisan Review. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who focused on the contemporary cultural, social and political implications of literature.

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Books by Lionel Trilling

Average rating: 4.12 · 6,204 ratings · 508 reviews · 31 distinct works

	Sincerity and Authenticity 4.20 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1972 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society. Reprint of the 1950 Ed 3.98 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1950 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Moral Obligation to Be Intelligent by Lionel Trilling, Leon Wieseltier (Editor) 4.29 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Middle of the Journey by Lionel Trilling, Monroe Engel (Preface) 3.67 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1947 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume V: Victorian Prose and Poetry 3.62 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1973	My rating:
	Of This Time, Of That Place And Other Stories 3.73 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	E. M. Forster 3.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1943 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Opposing Self: Nine Essays in Criticism 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1955 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1968 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Experience of Literature 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Immature artists imitate.
Mature artists steal.”
― Lionel Trilling

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“Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty.”
― Lionel Trilling

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“Our culture tends "to regard the mere energy of impulse as being in every mental and moral way equivalent and even superior to defined intention." Instead we should consider "an idea that once was salient in western culture: the idea of "making a life", by which was meant conceiving human existence, one's own or another's, as if it were a work of art upon which one might pass judgment.... This desire to fashion, to shape, a self and a life has all but gone from a contemporary culture whose emphasis, paradoxically enough, is so much on self.”
― Lionel Trilling

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