Peter Viereck

Peter Robert Edwin Viereck (* August 5, 1916 in New York; † 13 May 2006, South Hadley, Massachusetts) was an American university professor, author and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Peter quadrangle was the son of the poet George Sylvester Viereck. In 1937 the rectangle BA in History (summa cum laude) from Harvard University. This was followed in 1939 and MA 1942, Ph.D., also at Harvard.

Viereck was until his retirement many years Professor of History of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Before the entry of the United States into the Second World War he analyzed in his 1941 published in AA Knopf in New York Metapolitics Essay: From the Romantics to Hitler the irrational and mythical elements of National Socialism.

In 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in the category of poetry for his work Terror and decorum.

Works (selection)

Poetry

  • Terror and decorum (1948 )
  • Strike through the mask! (1950)
  • The first morning (1956 )
  • The persimmon tree (1956 )
  • New and selected poems 1932-67 (1967 )
  • Archer in the marrow (1987 )

Essays

  • Metapolitics. From the romantics to Hitler (1941 )
  • Conservatism revisited (1949 )
  • Conservatism (1956 )
  • The unadjusted one (1956 )
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