Kind of ironic to think about how the new aesthetes invoking Trilling and the midcentury critics in defense of art for art’s sake actually sound a lot more like the formalist New Critics that Trilling and the New York intellectuals considered their rivals
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Definitely not a coincidence that there is an overlap between the so-called Southern Fugitives and New Critics
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