Lynette Abel  / Aesthetic Realism & Life

"Freedom Is with Imagination," Nevertheless Poetry class given by Eli Siegel
           September 29, 1971. In it, he discusses Samuel Taylor Coleridge, including his 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 Eli Siegel in the1970s.  I am grateful to him for introducing me
           to this great education.  In speaking to him recently, he told me he is so glad to have his report
           published on my website.

"Instinct and Mme de Sevigne,"a report by Lynette Abel on a class given by Eli Siegel
           December 11, 1964, 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, by Hans Chlumberg, discussed by Eli Siegel 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.  Eli Siegel discusses the writing of  French author Constantin Francois
           Comte de Volney

"Shakespeare's Interesting," In this talk, given December 9, 1970, Eli Siegel
           uses an 18th century edition of the play Hamlet, with critics of the time, and E.M.W.
           Tillyard's Shakespeare's Problem Plays.