Lionel Trilling

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.

External links

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