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Lionel Mordecai Trilling (July 4, 1905 – November 5, 1975) was an American literary critic, short story writer, essayist, and teacher. He was one of the leading U.S. critics of the 20th century who analyzed the contemporary cultural, social, and political implications of literature.
Lionel Trilling (born July 4, 1905, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Nov. 5, 1975, New York, N.Y.) was an American literary critic and teacher whose criticism was informed by psychological, sociological, and philosophical methods and insights.
Oct 30, 2018 · It is rare for a literary critic to remain alive for readers decades after his death—even rarer than for a novelist or a poet. Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) belonged to what Randall Jarrell called “the age of criticism,” a time when the analysis and judgment of texts had a prestige that is hard to imagine today.
Jul 1, 2000 · MOST Americans who respond seriously to books and ideas seem to agree that Lionel Trilling (1905-1975) became in the postwar years and remains today our most influential, most admired, and at...
Trilling is thought of as a modernist, but his celebrated essay “On the Teaching of Modern Literature” (1961) makes clear that “modernism” for him meant Proust, Joyce, Lawrence, Eliot, Yeats, Mann, Kafka, Rilke, and Gide. As these letters show, his attitude to the literature of his own time was wary.
Lionel Trilling, one of America’s foremost literary critics, was born on the Fourth of July in 1905 in Queens, New York to Jewish immigrant parents—his mother from London, his father from Bialystok, a city in northeastern Poland.
In one of his last essays, left unfinished at his death in 1975, Lionel Trilling tried to understand “Why We Read Jane Austen.” Trilling started wondering about Austen’s lasting appeal, he writes, because of the extraordinary popularity of a seminar on Austen that he offered at Columbia in 1973.
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