2014
Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and critic (born 1924)
Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and critic (born 1924)
Robert Peters, American poet, playwright and critic (born 1924)
Robert Peters (writer)
American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor and actor
- Died
- 2014
Robert Louis Peters was an American poet, critic, scholar, playwright, editor, and actor. He held a PhD in Victorian literature. Born in an impoverished rural area of northern Wisconsin in 1924, his poetry career began in 1967 when his young son Richard died unexpectedly of spinal meningitis. The book commemorating this loss, Songs for a Son, was selected by poet Denise Levertov to be published by W. W. Norton in 1967. Songs for a Son began a flood of poetry.