Eli Siegel's Poetry -- and, What is poetry?

As a person who loves poetry, and teaches it in my high school classes, I think the following page is tremendously valuable: Eli Siegel's Poetry -- and, What is poetry? It contains many poems and translations by the founder of Aesthetic Realism, American poet and critic Eli Siegel (1902-1978) , works of literary criticism by him and others, lectures he gave relating poetry to other subjects, and more. It is a resource I value, and I think other people will agree.

Ellen Reiss, on Robert Burns and justice to working people

How should working people, and the work they do, be seen? Aesthetic Realism explains that work is an aesthetic situation--a putting together of an individual person with the outside world--and it should be respected. Yet so many people throughout history, and many, many today, have been and felt disrespected when it comes to work, and have been rightly discontent because of this. In her commentary to the issue of the journal The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known titled "Jobs, Discontent, and Beauty," Ellen Reiss, the Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism and literary critic, discusses some poems by Robert Burns to show how he objected poetically to the unaesthetic, unjust way working people were seen. She has also written about the work of many other poets, and the aesthetic way they saw the world in their writing. So, there's more to come!

Aesthetic Realism Online Library!

I'm so glad to say that there is now an exciting new online resource for anyone who wants to learn more about Aesthetic Realism, the philsophy founded by Eli Siegel. It is the Aesthetic Realism Online Library. By clicking on www.AestheticRealism.net, you can read poems and lectures by Eli Siegel, chapters from various books about Aesthetic Realism, Mr. Siegel's reviews of many books, originally published in Scribner's Magazine, his poetry and criticism, many issues of the journal The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, including commentary by Ellen Reiss, the Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism, and much more! This is an amazing compilation of work that shows what Aesthetic Realism truly is--and I encourage anyone who wants to learn about this beautiful and intellectually exact philosophy to read what is on the Aesthetic Realism Online Library!