Reports of Aesthetic
Realism Classes
Given
by Eli Siegel
"Freedom Is with
Imagination," Nevertheless
Poetry class given September
29, 1971. In it,
Eli Siegel
discusses Samuel Taylor Coleridge's
great poem
"Christabel,"
and Homer's Iliad, the translations
of Richmond Lattimore, and
Alexander Pope.
This is a report written by Paul
Abel, musician, retired airline
pilot, and my
father. He studied Aesthetic
Realism in classes with Mr.
Siegel
in the 1960s and
70s. I am grateful to him for introducing me
to this great
education, the
kindest thing a father could do for a
daughter.
"Instinct and
Mme de Sevigne," this class given
on December 11, 1964,
is one in a
series he gave on instinct.
"People
Leave
Each Other in Poetry," two classes given
February 14
and 21,
1968
"Freedom
and
Order in Poetry," given February 4,
1970
"It
Is,
As It's Elsewhere," given June
17, 1970
The Miracle at
Verdun, a play by Hans Chlumberg,
and discussed by
Eli Siegel on
April 3, 1977
"Words
Are
Everywhere: Comedy and Tragedy Are Two
of These," given
March 24, 1971.
"Presence
and
Absence: A Consideration of the Arts and
Sciences,"
given
February 21, 1969. In it, Eli Siegel
discusses the writing of French author
Constantin Francois Comte de Volney
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