Lionel Trilling
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Lionel Trilling (1905–1975) was a literary critic, essayist, and author of more than ten books, including The Liberal Imagination and Beyond Culture. A board member and a regular contributor to both the Kenyon Review and Partisan Review, he was George Edward Woodberry Professor of Literature and Criticism at Columbia University, where his students included Allen Ginsberg, John Hollander, and Norman Podhoretz.
