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New York Evening Post Literary Review

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"Hardy's Four Lines Called Best in Poetry Anthology" by Eli Siegel, November 28, 1925

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Reviews of Works by Eli Siegel & about Aesthetic Realism

In the New York Times Book Review, Kenneth Rexroth reviewed Hail, American Development, poems by Eli Siegel — "I think it's about time Eli Siegel was moved up into the ranks of our acknowledged Leading Poets..." "His translations of Baudelaire and his commentaries on them rank him with the most understanding of the Baudelaire critics in any language." ...more

William Carlos Williams wrote Martha Baird concerning "Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana" and other poems by Eli Siegel [Reprinted in Something to Say, ed. J.E.B. Breslin (New Directions)]— "I can't tell you how important Siegel's work is in the light of my present understanding of the modern poem. He belongs in the very first rank of our living artists....I congratulate you on the intelligent direction of your work and the heart behind it." ... more

The Harlem Times review of Eli Siegel's Children's Guide to Parents and Other Matters

Saturday Review, August 17, 1957, Selden Rodman. "Poems...which say more (and more movingly) about here and now than any contemporary poems I have read."

newsART—The Smith by William Packard. How a Major Poet Is Ostracized by Lit Cliches: Eli Siegel in View. The poems in Hot Afternoons: "Extraordinary by any standards."

Smithsonian Book Reviews, Washington, DC, February, 1982. Review of Self and World by Linda Ann Kunz

Whole in Brightness, New Mexico Quarterly review of Hot Afternoons, August 17, 1957, by Walter Leuba. "A poet who writes for men and women on subjects close to them and full of meaning for them, in a language they can understand, and who does this naturally, with virtuosity but without condescension, is not readily found."

REVIEW of Self and World by anthropologist Arnold Perey, 2005

ART STUDENTS LEAGUE NEWS review by Lawrence Campbell

Ralph Hattersley in Popular Photography. Review of Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There—Six Artists on the Siegel Theory of Opposites, by David Bernstein and others. " The book is well written and well conceived. I think it deals with fundamental truths concerning the nature of man, art and reality." [Note: Ralph Hattersley was editor of the photography journal Infinity.]

Library Journal review of Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There— "Heraclitus, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and even Martin Buber have posited contraries and polarities in their philosophies. Eli Siegel, however, seems to be the first to demonstrate that "all beauty is the making one of the permanent opposites in reality."... more