Eli Siegel

✓ Source-basedrising

Latvian-American poet, philosopher (1902-1978)

United States WritersLived 1902 to 1978 · aged 76

Compare

Fame46.3

Momentum7.2

Languages3

In century#198,888

Eli Siegel was a poet, writer, critic, educator, and philosopher. He founded Aesthetic Realism, a philosophical movement based in New York City.

Photos 2

Eli Siegel Historical Marker, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore, MD

Writers from United States 6

Dolores Hayden46.3

Dorothy Canfield Fisher46.3

Alan Sepinwall46.3 Michael Price46.3

Ernestine Gilbreth Carey46.3

Stewart Stern46.2

About this person

Eli Siegel was a poet, writer, critic, educator, and philosopher. He founded Aesthetic Realism, a philosophical movement based in New York City. An idea central to Aesthetic Realism - that every person, place or thing in reality has something in common with all other things - was expressed in the title poem of his first volume, Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana: Poems. His second volume was Hail, American Development.

Country

United States