[Lionel] Trilling envied the raw creative genius of Ernest Hemingway, and indeed believed that "novelists as a class have made the most aggressive assault upon the world." He looked upon the Byronic energies of his student Allen Ginsberg with a kind of brooding envy, never mind that Ginsberg was start to finish a second-rate poet, his celebrated "Howl" the sophomoric and technically inept rant of a solipsist ([Adam] Kirsch quotes Trilling's indefatigable wife, Diana, comparing the Beats to "children in a progressive kindergarten").from The Daily Beast: Adam Kirsch's Why Trilling Matters Reminds Us of Power of Reading
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