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Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (August 5, 1916 – May 13, 2006) was an American writer, poet and professor of history at Mount Holyoke College. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1949 for the collection Terror and Decorum .
May 19, 2006 · Peter Viereck, a noted historian, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and a founder of the mid-20th-century American conservative movement who later denounced what he saw as its...
Peter Viereck’s exposure to his father’s extremist views shaped much of his political thinking and poetic practice. Endorsing a philosophy which seeks to join humankind with what he described as the rhythmic heritage of the universe, Viereck sought to synthesize extremes in much of his poetry.
Oct 16, 2005 · By Tom Reiss. October 16, 2005. In the winter of 1940, The Atlantic Monthly invited Peter Viereck, a twenty-three-year-old Harvard graduate who had won the college’s top essay and poetry...
Peter Robert Edwin Viereck was born in New York City on August 5, 1916. He achieved remarkable scholastic success in his college years and graduated from Harvard University summa...
Jan 10, 2024 · Motivated by a wish to understand his own father's affinity for the Nazis, historian Peter Viereck argued that Hitler was the culmination of an intellectual trend in German thought stretching back to antiquity.
May 20, 2006 · Peter R. Viereck, a historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and political philosopher who was spurned by the modern conservative movement despite his central role in its birth, died...
