Lionel Trilling Quote

Occasions are rare when the best literature becomes, as it were, the folk literature, and generally speaking literature has always been carried on within small limits and under great difficulties.


The Liberal Imagination. The Function of the Little Magazine


Occasions are rare when the best literature becomes, as it were, the folk literature, and generally speaking literature has always been carried on...

Occasions are rare when the best literature becomes, as it were, the folk literature, and generally speaking literature has always been carried on...

Occasions are rare when the best literature becomes, as it were, the folk literature, and generally speaking literature has always been carried on...

Occasions are rare when the best literature becomes, as it were, the folk literature, and generally speaking literature has always been carried on...