The Collection
The Collection houses the books and some of the manuscripts of Eli Siegel, poet, critic, & founder of Aesthetic Realism.
Special Collections include French, German, and Spanish literature; Early American History; 19th-Century periodical literature; British and American poetry.
The Collection is open by appointment to persons seriously studying Aesthetic Realism.
The Aesthetic Realism Foundation is a not-for-profit educational foundation, established in 1973, teaching Aesthetic Realism through public seminars and dramatic presentations, classes and individual consultations. The Foundation publishes The Rightness of Aesthetic Realism: A Periodical, the monthly international publication edited by Ellen Reiss, Aesthetic Realism Chair of Education.
More about Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism
- What Is Aesthetic Realism? An Explanation by Eli Siegel
- People Who Study Aesthetic Realism Are Saying This
- “Hymn to Fourth Avenue”: Poem by Eli Siegel (with Links)
- Reports by Lynette Abel of Groundbreaking Classes Given by Eli Siegel
- Ellen Reiss introduces Eli Siegel’s great lecture “Aesthetic Realism & Expression”
- Lectures by Eli Siegel in the Aesthetic Realism Online Library