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.

• 1. Sincerity: Its Origin and Rise 2. The Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Consciousness 3. The Sentiment of Being and the Sentiments of Art 4. The Heroic, and Beautiful, and Authentic 5. Society and Authenticity 6. The Authentic Unconscious Reference Notes Index of Names

A beautifully written book, its tone admirably judged and perfectly sustained...It is wide, fastidious, and deeply thoughtful in its range of reference...Temperate, controlled and delicately scrupulous, it is a tribute if ever there was one to the ‘honest consciousness.’

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.

• 1. Sincerity: Its Origin and Rise 2. The Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Consciousness 3. The Sentiment of Being and the Sentiments of Art 4. The Heroic, and Beautiful, and Authentic 5. Society and Authenticity 6. The Authentic Unconscious Reference Notes Index of Names

A beautifully written book, its tone admirably judged and perfectly sustained...It is wide, fastidious, and deeply thoughtful in its range of reference...Temperate, controlled and delicately scrupulous, it is a tribute if ever there was one to the ‘honest consciousness.’

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.

• 1. Sincerity: Its Origin and Rise 2. The Honest Soul and the Disintegrated Consciousness 3. The Sentiment of Being and the Sentiments of Art 4. The Heroic, and Beautiful, and Authentic 5. Society and Authenticity 6. The Authentic Unconscious Reference Notes Index of Names

A beautifully written book, its tone admirably judged and perfectly sustained...It is wide, fastidious, and deeply thoughtful in its range of reference...Temperate, controlled and delicately scrupulous, it is a tribute if ever there was one to the ‘honest consciousness.’