Aesthetic Realism as Poetry
This issue of TRO reprints Eli Siegel’s Statement with Comments, “Poetry Is the Making One of Opposites.” This is the text for the course The Aesthetic Realism Explanation of Poetry, taught by Ellen Reiss
The Shakespearean Awareness
“Shakespeare says much of fear, anger, contempt. Some of the highest points in the world’s literature have Shakespeare’s awareness of these three emotions….”
The Hawthorne Omission
“I shall give evidence that Nathaniel Hawthorne knew he was driven by a deep contempt; and he also knew that he might die of it….”
Missed by Edgar Allan Poe
“Edgar Allan Poe felt that he had put aside good will in his life; and that for the rest of his years, he was hoping to have it back. It is good will, essentially, who is or which is missed in his poems like ‘Ulalume’ or ‘The Raven’….”
America Has Literature
“The first American novel that impressed Europe was The Spy of 1821 by James Fenimore Cooper….[He] had one of the greatest imaginations the world has seen…..”
Essays and Lectures
- The Immediate Need for Poetry
- Poetry Is the Making One of Opposites
- Historic talk on William Carlos Williams’ poetry
- Poetry and History
- Poetry and Keenness
- Poetry and Women
- Romanticism and Guilt
- It Still Moves; or, The Novel