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SELF AND WORLD:
an Explanation of Aesthetic Realism, by Eli Siegel

• Table of Contents
• Excerpt from “Preface”
• The Aesthetic Method in Self-Conflict [Chapter 3]
• Imagination, Reality, and Aesthetics [Chapter 5]
• Love and Reality [Chapter 7]
• The Child [Chapter 9]

JAMES AND THE CHILDREN:
A Consideration of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw, by Eli Siegel

• Chapter 1, “Careful Hovering”

CHILDREN’S GUIDE TO PARENTS & OTHER MATTERS
Little Essays for Children & Others, by Eli Siegel

• Chapter 10: Work
• Chapter 11: Books

THE WILLIAMS-SIEGEL DOCUMENTARY
Edited by Martha Baird & Ellen Reiss

• Williams’ Poetry Talked about by Eli Siegel, and William Carlos Williams Present and Talking: March 5, 1952

And you can read poems by Eli Siegel including from his books
HOT AFTERNOONS HAVE BEEN IN MONTANA: POEMS and
HAIL, AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT