Lionel Trilling (1905 - 1975) wanted very much to be a novelist. His short stories appeared in "The Menorah Journal" and "Partisan Review", and he published one novel in 1947, "The Middle of the Journey".
Lionel Trilling Books
July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975
Lionel Trilling was a prominent American literary critic and teacher who significantly influenced 20th-century thought. As a key member of the New York Intellectuals and a contributor to Partisan Review, he explored the deep connections between literature and its contemporary cultural, social, and political implications. His work illuminated how literary texts reflect and shape the world around us.
This volume devotes over 100 pages to William Blake, including The Book of Thel and the entire "Night the Ninth" from The Four Zoas, as well as excerpts from Milton and Jerusalem. It also includes poems and prose by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, and Byron.
The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent
- 592 pages
- 21 hours of reading
The America of John Dos Passos -- Hemingway and his critics -- T.S. Eliot's politics -- The immortality ode -- Kipling -- Reality in America -- Art and neurosis -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey report -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Princess Casamassima -- Wordsworth and the Rabbis -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste -- The poet as hero: Keats in his letters -- George Orwell and the politics of truth -- The situation of the American intellectual at the present time -- Mansfield Park -- Isaac Babel -- The morality of inertia -- "That smile of Parmenides made me think"--The last lover -- A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode -- On the teaching of modern literature -- The Leavis-Snow controversy -- The fate of pleasure -- James Joyce in his letters -- Mind in the modern world -- Art, will, and necessity -- Why we read Jane Austen.
Das Ende Der Aufrichtigkeit de Trilling Lionel. Hanser, 1980.
