The distinguished poet and critic argues for the abiding relevance
of a great literary mind of the twentieth century Lionel Trilling,
regarded at the time of his death in 1975 as America's preeminent
literary critic, is today often seen as a relic of a vanished era.
His was an age when literary criticism and ideas seemed to matter
profoundly in the intellectual life of the country. In this
eloquent book, Adam Kirsch shows that Trilling, far from being
obsolete, is essential to understanding our current crisis of
literary confidence-and to overcoming it. By reading Trilling
primarily as a writer and thinker, Kirsch demonstrates how
Trilling's original and moving work continues to provide an
inspiring example of a mind creating itself through its encounters
with texts. Why Trilling Matters introduces all of Trilling's major
writings and situates him in the intellectual landscape of his
century, from Communism in the 1930s to neoconservatism in the
1970s. But Kirsch goes deeper, addressing today's concerns about
the decline of literature, reading, and even the book itself, and
finds that Trilling has more to teach us now than ever before. As
Kirsch writes, "Trilling's essays are not exactly literary
criticism" but, like all literature, "ends in themselves."
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