Looking for Trilling's Intro to 1984

[Robert Mahnke]

Like I think John Bailey said, I have access to the New Yorker's archives,
and can't find a Trilling review of 1984 there.  However, a 2003 piece by
Louis Menand refers to a Trilling introduction to Homage To Catalonia:

When “Homage to Catalonia” was finally published in the United States, in
1952, Lionel Trilling wrote an introduction, which Jeffrey Meyers has
called “probably the most influential essay on Orwell.” It is a work of
short fiction. “Orwell clung with a kind of wry, grim pride to the old ways
of the last class that had ruled the old order,” Trilling wrote; he
exemplified the meaning of the phrase “my station and its duties,” and
respected “the old bourgeois virtues.” He even “came to love things,
material possessions.” A fully housebroken anti-Communist. It is amusing to
imagine Orwell slurping his tea at the Columbia Faculty House.

Louis Menand, "Honest, Decent, Wrong," from the January 27, 2003, issue.

On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Allan Balliett <allan.balliett at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Trillings papers are archived at Columbia.
>
> It looks like many of them are accessible on-line
>
> Please let us know when something works out!
>
> http://findingaids.cul.columbia.edu/ead//nnc-rb/ldpd_4079615
>
> Allan in WV
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 7:09 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have access to the online archives but a search isn't bringing up
>> anything. If you knew the date I could find it manually.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 10:54 AM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The New Yorker, A Critic at Large September 29, 2008 Issue
>>> Regrets Only
>>> Lionel Trilling and his discontents.
>>> By Louis Menand
>>>
>>> The paragraph below appears in the NYRB reprint of Trilling's _TLI_
>>> with Introduction by Louis Menand.
>>>
>>> “The Liberal Imagination” was a Cold War book. It appeared at the same
>>> political moment as Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.,’s “The Vital Center”
>>> (1949), George Orwell’s “1984” (1949), and Richard Crossman’s “The God
>>> That Failed” (1950)—books that helped make the case for liberal
>>> anti-Communism. Trilling was certainly a liberal anti-Communist.
>>> Orwell was one of his heroes: he reviewed “1984” in The New Yorker,
>>> and called the book “momentous.” And he was prominently associated
>>> with Partisan Review, which had been the journalistic home of the
>>> anti-Communist left since 1937. Five of the sixteen essays in “The
>>> Liberal Imagination” first appeared in Partisan Review; a sixth is
>>> about Partisan Review. (The book is being reprinted this fall by New
>>> York Review Books.)
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:43 PM, Allan Balliett
>>> <allan.balliett at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > It's not Trilling's review in The Nation? -Allan in WV
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 5:03 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Sorry, it's not an Introduction but a Review of the novel by Trilling
>>> >> in the New Yorker. I've lots on the Review and its significance,
>>> >> including an essay by Louis Menand, the Introduction to Trilling's
>>> >> _The Liberal Imagination_, but I can't locate the Review.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 2:00 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >> > Looked online but no luck. Anyone?
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