Lionel Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, author, and teacher. Trilling was seen as one of the great literary critics and one of the New York intellectuals dominating the day. He is probably most famous to the general public for his introduction to a 1952 reissue of George Orwell's book, Homage to Catalonia. He was also a regular contributor to the Partisan Review. July 4 is the 185th day of the year (186th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 180 days remaining. ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... November 5 is the 309th day of the year (310th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 56 days remaining. ... 1975 was a common year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1975 calendar). ... Literary criticism is the study, discussion, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. ... An intellectual is a person who uses his or her intellect to study, reflect, or speculate on a variety of different ideas. ... 1952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... George Orwell Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by the pen name George Orwell was a British author. ... Homage to Catalonia book cover Homage to Catalonia is George Orwells personal account of the Spanish Civil War, written in the first person. ... Partisan Review was an American political and literary quarterly published from 1934 to 2003. ...

Lionel Trilling was born in New York City into a Jewish family. Trilling was educated at Columbia University, was a classmate of Whittaker Chambers and received his B.A. (1925), M.A. (1926), and Ph.D. (1938). Lionel Trilling began teaching literature at Columbia in 1932 and became a full professor in 1948. His one novel, The Middle of a Journey, about an affluent Communist couple, was published in 1947. His most famous volume of essays was the 1950 The Liberal Imagination. Another collection of essays is entitled The Moral Obligation to be Intelligent. He is the author of Sincerity and Authenticity, an exploration on the idea of self as a moral quotient in post-Age of Enlightenment Western civilization, and Beyond Culture, a collection on essays dealing with the attitudes of modernity. Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... Whittaker Chambers in 1939 Jay Vivian (Whittaker) Chambers (April 1, 1901 – July 9, 1961) was an American writer, editor, political operative and defector best known for his accusation and testimony against Alger Hiss, the architect of the Yalta Conference and Secretary General of the San Francisco conference that created the... 1925 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... Communism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /w/skins-1. ... 1947 was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Sincerity and Authenticity is a book by Lionel Trilling, based on a series of lectures he delivered in 1970 as Charles Eliot Norton Professor at Harvard University. ... The Age of Enlightenment refers to the 18th century in European philosophy, and is often thought of as part of a larger period which includes the Age of Reason. ... For alternative meanings for The West in the United States, see the U.S. West and American West. ... Modernity is a term used to describe the condition of being Modern. Since the term Modern is used to describe a wide range of periods, modernity must be taken in context. ...

External links

• Johns Hopkins Guide to Criticism
• Quotations by Lionel Trilling
• Columbia Univ. profile of Trilling
• The Trilling Imagination by Gertrude Himmelfarb