Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck
Born5 August 1916
Died13 May 2006 (aged 89)
Occupation(s)Poet and professor
ParentGeorge Sylvester Viereck
Awards
Academic background
EducationHarvard University (BA, MA, PhD)
Influences
Academic work
DisciplineHistory
Main interestsPoetry, politics

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.[1][2] In 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florence.

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  2. ^ "Modern Timeline of Poetry" Archived 2006-01-05 at the Wayback Machine, University of Toronto