Eli Siegel

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Eli Siegel (September 16, 1902-December 8, 1978) was a poet, scholar, and educator who founded Aesthetic Realism, the belief that "every individual, space, or thing in common with all other things." During his lifetime, two best-selling books of poetry were published, and in 1958, he was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism and Definitions by Siegel, as well as a Comment: Being a Description of the World.

His teaching of Aesthetic Realism spanned nearly four decades and included thousands of extemporaneous lectures on poetry, music, neuroscience, economic, and national ethics, as well as individual and general classes that demonstrated that everyday life concerns are aesthetic and ethical. Williams' lecture on William Carlos Williams, which Williams attended, is published in The Williams-Siegel Documentary, as well as his talks on Henry James' The Turn of the Screw. "The world, art, and self-explain each other," Siegel's book "The world, art, and self-explaine each other" has influenced artists, writers, and educators.

Life

Siegel, a born in Dvinsk, Russia Empire, and his parents, Mendel and Sarah (Einhorn) Siegel, immigrated to the United States in 1905. The family migrated to Baltimore, Maryland, where Siegel attended Baltimore City College and joined the Bancroft/Carrollton-Wight Literary Societies later known as the Bancroft/Carrollton-Wight Literary Societies. In 1919, he joined the The Green Bag, a senior newspaper and graduated from 1919. Together with the V.F. in 1922, the two groups formed in 1922. Calverton [George Goetz], he co-founded The Modern Quarterly, a magazine in which his early essays appeared, including "The Scientific Criticism" (Vol. 1). I, no. "The Equality of Man" (vol. 1, March 1923) and "The Equality of Man" (Vol. 3) No. I. No. December 3, 1923.

As the winner of The Nation's highest poetry award in 1925, his "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" was selected from four thousand anonymously submitted poems. "The most moving and interesting poem that came in," the magazine's editors characterized it as "the most vivid and fascinating poem which appeared in," a poem that captured a modern and vivid vision of the earth on which afternoons and men have always existed.

The poem begins:

"Hot Afternoons" was controversial and sparked a "editorial outrage around the world. The author's innovative approach in this long, free-verse poem polarized commentators, with a large portion of the polemic taking the form of parody. "I tried to take many things that are normally thought of as being far apart and foreign, but in a graceful manner, they aren't so different and have a lot to do with one another."

Siegel continued writing poetry throughout his life, but the bulk of his time over the next decade was dedicated to developing the theory he later identified as Aesthetic Realism. After moving to New York City, he became a member of the Greenwich Village poets, best known for his dramatic readings of "Hot Afternoons" and other poems. One Question, his two-word poem, received acclaim in 1925 as the shortest poem in the English language. It appeared in the New York Evening Post's Literary Review: It was published in the New York Evening Post's Literary Review.

Siegel served as the master of ceremonies for regular poetry readings that were popular for mixing poetry and jazz for several years. He served as a regular reviewer for Scribner's magazine and the New York Evening Post Literary Review. Siegel began teaching poetry in 1938 with the belief that "what makes a good poem is like what makes a good life." In 1941, students in these classes requested him to conduct individual lessons in which they could learn about their own lives. These were the first Aesthetic Realism lessons.

Martha Baird (University of Iowa), who had started attending his classes the year before, was married in 1944. Baird would later become Secretary of the Society for Aesthetic Realism as well as a musicologist and writer in her own right.

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Siegel began giving weekly lectures at Steinway Hall in 1946, introducing Aesthetic Analysis (later, Aesthetic Realism) "a philosophical way of seeing conflict within ourselves and making it clear to a person so that they can become more integrated and happier." He gave many thousand lectures on poetry, history, and economics from 1941 to 1978, a large variety of the arts and sciences. Thousands of individual Aesthetic Realism lessons were taught to men, women, and children. The way of seeing the world based on aesthetics, which is Aesthetic Realism, was introduced in these lessons.

William Carlos Williams read "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" again in 1951, and Martha Baird wrote to Martha Baird: "Everything we are forced to do is in that one poem." "Belongs in the first class of our living artists," Siegel wrote. The prize poem became Siegel's first book, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems, and it was nominated for a National Book Award in 1958. Hail, American Development, his second volume, a decade later, received critical acclaim. In the New York Times, Kenneth Rexroth wrote, "I think Eli Siegel should have been promoted to the top of our most respected Leading Poets" list. Walter Leuba characterized Siegel's poems as "alive in a burning passion and directness," while still possessing "exquisite emotional tact." From "Dear Birds, Tell This to Mothers," he referred to these lines: "Dear Birds, Tell This to Mothers": a child's heart was narrated.

Siegel underwent surgery for a benign prostatic disease at the age of 76. It was "the operation so frustrating to me," the surgeon described it. As a result, he lost the use of his feet and was unable to sleep. The procedure, according to Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chairman of Education, was "the cause of his death 5-1/2 months later."

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