Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society. Reprint of the 1950 Ed (Lionel Trilling Works) [Hardcover]

Lionel Trilling (Author)

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• Hardcover: 284 pages
• Publisher: Harcourt; Uniform ed edition (April 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0151511977
• ISBN-13: 978-0151511976
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,951,078 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An important collection by the dean of literary critics of his time, September 3, 2005

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This review is from: Liberal Imagination: Essays on Literature and Society. Reprint of the 1950 Ed (Lionel Trilling Works) (Hardcover)

Trilling was one of the most important literary critics of his time. He was a person of very broad learning whose heart was primarily in literary matters but who also dealt with the political questions of his time. His writing is informed and intelligent but I have always sensed it to lack a deeper passion, a power to move in the strongest way.