... men and women who wrote books of general intellectual interest and had names known outside the academy—Perry Miller, Aileen Ward, Walter Jackson Bate, Marjorie Hope Nicolson, Joseph Wood Krutch, Lionel Trilling, one could name a dozen or so others
Bwahahahaha! I've heard of Lionel Trilling, although the only works of his I have read are some collected essays.
And I come from generations of readers and collectors. None of these writers was on the shelf in my parents' or grandparents' houses.
67 posted on 08/30/2011 4:14:27 PM PDT by Tax-chick
("True education is not an adjustment to the world, but a defense against the world.")