Matthew Arnold: With an Additional Essay Matthew Arnold, Poet

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Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977 - Biography & Autobiography - 493 pages

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15
His Father and His England
36
The Making of Myths
77
Copyright

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About the author (1977)

Trilling has exerted a wide influence upon literature and criticism: as university professor at Columbia, where he taught English literature, and in his long association with Partisan Review, Kenyon Review, and the Kenyon School of English (now the School of Letters, Indiana University). He considered himself a true "liberal"---having a "vision of a general enlargement of [individual] freedom and rational direction in human life. Yet even liberalism, Trilling insisted, was simply one of several ways of organizing the complexity of life; however, it can reveal "variousness and possibility" just as literature, its subject, does. Trilling was viewed as a genteel moralist, but never would settle for mere simplification in literary analysis even if it led to understanding.

Bibliographic information

TitleMatthew Arnold: With an Additional Essay Matthew Arnold, Poet
Meridian books
Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975. The works of Lionel Trilling
Volume 12 of Trilling, Lionel: The works
Works, Lionel Trilling
AuthorLionel Trilling
Edition2
PublisherHarcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977
ISBN0151582025, 9780151582020
Length493 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / General
Literary Criticism / Poetry
  
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