Peter Viereck - South Hadley, MA
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The grave of Pulitzer Prize winning poet and historian Peter Viereck is located in Evergreen Cemetery, 25 Edison Drive, South Hadley, MA.
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 08/24/2018
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The grave of poet and historian Peter Robert Viereck is marked by a small granite headstone which is inscribed:
PETER VIERECK
1916 - 2006
"A POET IS SOMEONE WHO SKIMS EVER WEIGHTIER
STONES EVER FARTHER ON WATER."
FROM "TIDE" 1995
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The back is inscribed:
NOW FORWARD STILL MORE FORWARD
HALF-SPEED AHEAD
DOOR 2005
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Peter Robert Viereck was born in New York City on August 5, 1916. He attended Harvard University where he graduated summa cum laude in 1937 and was a professor of history at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA. for over 50 years. In 1955 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Florence.
He was a prolific writer of both poetry and history. Many of his poems were published in Poetry Magazine. In 1949 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his collection of poems Terror and Decorum.
Wikipedia lists the following writings of Peter Viereck.
Poetry Collections:
1948: Terror and Decorum
1949: The Poet in the Machine Age
1950: Strike Through the Mask! New Lyrical Poems
1952: The First Morning, New Poems
1953: Dream and Responsibility: Four Test Cases of the Tension Between Poetry and Society
1954: The Last Decade in Poetry: New Dilemmas and New Solutions
1956: The Persimmon Tree: new pastoral and lyrical poems
1961: The Tree Witch: A Poem and Play (First of All a Poem)
1967: New and Selected Poems: 1932-1967
1987: Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles of 1967-1987
1995: Tide and continuities: Last and First Poems, 1995-1938
2005: Door: Poems
2005: Strict Wildness: Discoveries In Poetry And History
History
1941: Meta-Politics: the Roots of the Nazi Mind
1949: Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology
1953: Dream and Responsibility: Four Test Cases of the Tension between Poetry and Society
1953: Shame and Glory of the Intellectuals
1956: Conservatism: from John Adams to Churchill
1956: The Unadjusted Man: A New Hero for Americans
1957: Inner Liberty: The Stubborn Grit in the Machine
2003: Metapolitics: From Wagner and the German Romantics to Hitler
2011: Strict Wildness: Discoveries in Poetry and History