SOURCE: Review of Archer in the Marrow: The Apple-wood Cycles, National Review, Vol. XL, No. 2, February 5, 1988, pp. 55-56.

In the following review, Lind calls Archer in the Marrow: The Applewood Cycles a "philosophical poem" and suggests that it marks Viereck's return to German romanticism.

There Are two Peter Vierecks—or are there? In his astonishing poetic sequence Archer in the Marrow, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet deals with favorite concerns in a style familiar to those who know Viereck primarily as a political polemicist.

Viereck, an historian at Mount Holyoke now in his eighth decade, helped define the "New Conservatism" of the early Fifties with his Conservatism Revisited (1949) and Conservatism: From John Adams to Churchill (1956). Somewhat like George Will today, Viereck argued for the compatibility of Tory paternalism and New Deal statism; he praised Metternich, voted for Stevenson, and waited for the gauche Right mustered by the young Wm...