Eli Siegel Collection





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.