The moral obligation to be intelligent : selected essays / Lionel Trilling ; edited and with an introduction by Leon Wieseltier

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Contents: The America of John Dos Passos -- Hemingway and his critics -- T.S. Eliot's politics -- The immortality of ode -- Kipling -- Reality in America -- Art and neurosis -- Manners, morals, and the novel -- The Kinsey report -- Huckleberry Finn -- The Princess Casamassima -- Wordsworth and the Rabbis -- William Dean Howells and the roots of modern taste -- The poet as hero: Keats in his letters -- George Orwell and the politics of truth -- The situation of the American intellectual at the present time -- Mansfield Park -- Isaac Babel -- The morality of inertia -- "That smile of Parmenides made me think" -- The last lover -- A speech on Robert Frost: a cultural episode -- On the teaching of modern literature -- The Leavis-Snow controversy -- The fate of pleasure -- James Joyce in his letters -- Mind in the modern world -- Art, will, and necessity -- Why we read Jane Austen.
ISBN: 0374257949 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-559) and index.

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