Eli Siegel's Poetry
& Aesthetic Realism Asks: What Is Poetry?

Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

Must I Wait All My Life;
or, The Misery Song

Observations in the Metre of Tamburlaine on the Norman Mailer Turbulence....
The Dark That Was Is Here
Amiable Thoughts for Someone in a Hospital
Neighboring You
The Unknown Should Be Good
Alice Has Never Been in China
All For Herself; Shakey

Short Poems

One Question
21 Distichs about Children
Love and Jobs
Discouraged People
Still the Dawn
Spark
Come, Spring Flowers
Contemporary History

William Carlos Williams. 1951 [In Something to Say, ed. J.E.B. Breslin (New Directions)].
Kenneth Rexroth. Review,  New York Times, 1969.
Ellen Reiss.  On a Series of Eli Siegel's Poems titled "The Persistence of Fabric."
Walter Leuba. Whole in Brightness, New Mexico Quarterly, August 17, 1957.
Selden Rodman.  Saturday Review, August 17, 1957.
William Packard.  newsART—The Smith.

The Aesthetic Realism Explanation of Poetry. Class taught by Ellen Reiss
The Immediate Need for Poetry by Eli Siegel
Lectures by Eli Siegel on Poetry.

See Poetry and Women
Poetry and Keenness
Poetry and History, and more

'The Star-Spangled Banner' As a Poem by Eli Siegel
Woman's Dissatisfaction: When Is It Right and Wrong? With a Study of Edna St. Vincent Millay by Margot Carpenter

These discussions by Eli Siegel and Ellen Reiss in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known describe poetry technically; what makes for its music; how the lives of poets comment on matters that concern people most:

Robert Browning  Robert Burns  Lord Byron Emily Dickinson John Donne	Thomas Gray  H.D. [Hilda Doolittle]  Gerard Manley Hopkins  John Keats

I Should Love to Be Loved, By Endre Ady
Anonymous
        Roland and the Archbishop: From the Chanson de Roland
        The Song of the Potter: Ceylon Folk Poem
The Laurels Are Cut Down, By Théodore de Banville
Her Lunch-Tray, By Basho
The Splash, By Basho
To the Reader, By Charles Baudelaire
The Voyage, VIII; By Charles Baudelaire
Hymn, By Charles Baudelaire
The Albatross, By Charles Baudelaire
Mourn This Sparrow, By Gaius Valerius Catullus
The Poem of Catullus about Attis, By Gaius Valerius Catullus
The Idea of Beauty Is Adored in This World, By Joachim Du Bellay
The Cydnus, By José Maria de Heredia
Towards Homer: Free Verse, Beginning with the First Lines of Pope's
        Translation of the Odyssey, By Homer
The Expiation, By Victor Hugo
The Milkmaid and the Pot of Milk, By Jean de La Fontaine
The Oak and the Reed, By Jean de La Fontaine
The Wolf and the Lamb, By Jean de La Fontaine
A Strong City Is Our God, By Martin Luther
Two Stanzas from French Literature about Death: In Stances à Du Perrier,
        By François de Malherbe
Carry Me Away, By Henri Michaux
The Fall of the Leaves, By Charles Hubert Millevoye
Duval Is on the Run: The People Are on the March, By José María Quiroga Pla
The Voice, By Henri de Régnier
Happiness, By Arthur Rimbaud
At Thermopylae, By Simonides of Ceos
Art Poétique, By Paul Verlaine
Autumn Song, By Paul Verlaine
Some Lines from Voltaire's Poem on the Disaster at Lisbon, By François
        Marie Arouet de Voltaire