Robert Peters received his education at the University of Wisconsin (B.A., 1948; M.A., 1949; Ph.D., 1952) and has served on the faculties of the University of Idaho, Boston, Ohio Wesleyan, and Wayne State. He is currently professor of English at the University of California, Irsine. He spent the 1966-67 academic year on a Guggenheim Fellowship studying and doing research at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University.
Robert Peters lives in southern California where he teaches Victorian literature and writing workshops. Since 1967, he has published some twenty volumes of poetry, which reflect a considerable range of form and theme. Highly praised as an iconoclastic critic and known for his work in theater, Peters has been called “our premier verse-biographer” by Booklist. Haydon is Peters’ fourth full-length dramatic monologue from Unicorn who will publish his Selected Poems in 1990.