Question

summary of the sense of the past by trilling​

Answer 1

What is the name of the chapter and from which class this question is????

Answer 2

Lionel Mordecai Trilling is a famous American literary critic. His critical works are mostly based on Historicism.

EXPLANATION:

'The sense of the past', is an important critique of Trilling. In this work he asserts that all literature must depict a historical study as literature is a historical art. According to Trilling a poet by himself is a historian, a reliable chronicler of events.

A literary work has to be aware of its past. The past of a work of literature lends to it its aesthetic authority. Literature is important to us and will always remain so.