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Eli Segal
SIEGEL, Eli (1902-1978),
poet, critic, philosopher, educator, grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1925 his
"Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" won the esteemed Nation Poetry
Prize. "I say definitely," William Carlos Williams was to write of it,
"that that single poem, out of a thousand others written in the past quarter
century, secures our place in the cultural world."
Beginning in 1941, the
year he founded the philosophy Aesthetic Realism, Mr. Siegel gave thousands of
lectures on poetry, history, economics — all the arts and sciences. And he
gave thousands of individual lessons to men, women, and children, which taught a
new way of seeing the world based on this principle: "The world, art, and
self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites."
These lessons are the basis
of Aesthetic Realism consultations now given at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation
in New York and by telephone worldwide. There are also public seminars and
dramatic presentations, and classes, including a workshop in the Aesthetic
Realism Teaching Method — the educational method used with historic success
for over 25 years in classrooms from elementary school through college.
Among Mr. Siegel's many
published works are Self and World: An Explanation of Aesthetic Realism;
Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems, which was
nominated for a National
Book Award in 1958 (John Henry Faulk, speaking of the poems in this book, said
on CBS radio, "Eli Siegel makes a man glad he's alive"); Hail,
American Development, containing 178 poems, including 32 translations;
James and the Children: A Consideration of Henry James's "Turn of the
Screw"; and Goodbye Profit System: Update.
Eli Siegel taught how
crucial it is for people, in order to like themselves, to want to know and
respect other people and the world. The following passionate, logical, musical
lines from "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" stand for that just way
of seeing †which he had all the time: The world is waiting to be known;
Earth, what it has in it! The past is in it; All words, feelings, movements,
words, bodies, clothes, girls, trees, stones, things of beauty, books,
desires are in it; and all are to be known; Afternoons have to do with the
whole world; And the beauty of mind, feeling knowingly the world! -
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