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Trilling, Lionel.
LIONEL TRILLING AUTOGRAPH ON PERSONAL STATIONERY.
New York City, NY:
N. P. ,
1969.
Hardcover.
First Edition/First Printing.
1 pages.
Fine.
Signed. Rare Lionel Trilling memorabilia item. Autograph by the author on his personal stationery. Written by the author entirely in his hand on handsome cream art-card size stationery. The card is imprinted on top with his name and address in deep-blue letters: "Lionel Trilling 35 Claremont Avenue New York, N. Y 10027". Lionel Trilling lived in the same residence for the rest of his life. His formidable wife, the critic Diana Trilling, entitled one of her essay collections, "The Claremont Essays". Encased in a protective glassine sleeve. Suitable for framing. Full text follows: "20 April 1969 For Dan Montemarano, Sincerely Lionel Trilling". Lionel Trilling was, quite simply, the most important American literary critic of the 20th century. He wrote seminal books such as "The Liberal Imagination", "The Opposing Self", "Sincerity and Authenticity", and "Beyond Culture", among many others while continuing to teach charismatically such students as Allen Ginsberg and John Hollander and encourage such then-aspiring writers as Susan Sontag, all of whom are now canonical figures in 20th-century American literature. Based at Columbia University for much of his academic career, Trilling lectured throughout the United States and around the world. "In the hands of Lionel Trilling, criticism became not merely a consideration of a work of literature but also of the ideas it embodied and what those ideas said of the society that gave birth to them. Criticism was a moral function, a search for those qualities by which every age in its turn measured the virtuous man and the virtuous society" (The New York Times). A retrospective collection of his finest and most representative work, "The Moral Obligation To Be Intelligent", was edited recently by Leon Wieseltier. A "nice-to-have" memorabilia item for Lionel Trilling collectors. This is the best specimen-signature by the author we have ever seen: Trilling's signature stands out simply and beautifully on the page. Lionel Trilling's signature is extremely difficult to come by. A rare, one-of-a-kind item thus. The greatest American literary critic of the 20th century. A fine collectible item. (SEE ALSO OTHER LIONEL TRILLING TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). $150.00 |
