Lionel Trilling (7 sept 1921 año – 22 oct 1974 año)

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Lionel Trilling (1905–1975)
Critic
entered Columbia 1921, from Queens, when the Erskine experimentation was beginning

Columbia College B.A. 1925, PhD 1938
Faculty 1927–74

Student of Matthew Arnold

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"At Columbia, Trilling was also recognized as a gifted and dedicated teacher with a special commitment to undergraduate education....He began teaching general education courses in the 1930s, when he co-taught a section of the Colloquium on Important Books with Jacques Barzun. Later, Trilling became a mainstay of Humanities A."

Essays appealed to both scholar and general readers