num_pages: 74
description: "The considerable value of Boyers's monograph is its judiciousness and lucidity...there is no discussing Trilling without some personalizing of recent history, and Boyers handles this with a combination of affectionate argument and distanced acuity are in any writing, much less literary criticism."
language: English
title: Lionel Trilling: Negative Capability and the Wisdom of Avoidance
titlecomplete: Lionel Trilling: Negative Capability and the Wisdom of Avoidance
publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr