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...tried to kill him with scorn. But he was a tough old party, and now, it appears, he has a son & heir following firmly in his daddy's footsteps. In the current Harvard Alumni Bulletin, Poet-Historian Peter Viereck introduces "Gaylord" Babbitt,* old George...
Stephen Spender, John Crowe Ransom of Indiana University, Peter R. Viereck '37 of Mt. Holyoke College, and Francis P. Magoun, Jr. '16, professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard will also participate in the Summer School conference which will be held on August...
More middlebrows than highbrows have applauded Viereck's efforts, but Terror and Decorum, his first book of more-or-less straightforward verse, won him a Pulitzer Prize last year. Strike Through the Mask!, his second, is as motley a product as Viereck's prizewinner, ranges from collegiate cacklings to fine and often funny flights of fancy. Conservative, not to say eclectic in form, it has more zest than grace...
...German propagandist George Sylvester Viereck,* Peter disowned his father's politics while still at Harvard, spent the war years as a sergeant with the Psychological Warfare Branch of the U.S. Army. Minus his flowing tie, 33-year-old Poet Peter becomes Peter Robert Edwin Viereck, Ph.D., a brilliant, right-of-center political theorist (Metapolitics; Conservatism Revisited) and associate professor of history at Mount Holyoke...
Mask!, at least a dozen strike out. But even when he fans, Viereck is refreshingly flamboyant; popping with energy and imagination, he gives every verse the old college try. Occasionally, as when he impersonates a pine tree singing its pitchy heart out to a pining rose, he can fall flat on his face. In the better works, wit gives weight to his wobbly lyricism. Viereck is at his typical best in a poem inspired by a newspaper headline: GLACIER ACCIDENT KILLS SKI PARTY; ONE BODY STILL MISSING. Impersonating the lost, icebound skier, he wrote...