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What Poetry Really Is

Aesthetic Realism itself, with its unprecedented comprehension of people, arose from Eli Siegel’s explanation and teaching of poetry. Here are some important essays and lectures by him:

  • The Immediate Need for Poetry
  • Poetry Is the Making One of Opposites
  • Poetry and History
  • Poetry and Keenness
  • Poetry and Women
  • Romanticism and Guilt
  • Williams’ Poetry Talked about by Eli Siegel, and William Carlos Williams Present and Talking: March 5, 1952

Of further interest:

  • The Aesthetic Realism Explanation of Poetry. Class taught by Ellen Reiss
  • Greenwich Village Is in the World—A 1972 Report, by Ellen Reiss, of a Talk Eli Siegel Gave on the Village Vanguard and Greenwich Village
  • “Hymn to Fourth Avenue,” a poem by Eli Siegel about the used bookstores that once lined NYC’s Fourth Avenue

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