December 2006: Additional poems by Stanley P. Anderson added: April Fools, Nature's Hymn, and Spiral Staircase of the Old Hotel
May 2006: Poems by Mary Agner and Stanley P. Anderson added to featured poems.
As of March, 2006 I have conducted a thorough updating of the site, fixing broken links and making other changes to make it easier to use. I expct to add several new items and content within the next month.
Scholarly Reviews
December, 2003
(Accentual verse)
(Accentual Verse)
On This Site:
Links from all over:
Bibliography
Essays
Review of Heaney's Beowulf
Original Texts
Translations
Original Texts
Sir Gawain
Beowulf
Riddles in the Old English Style
A bit of humor and satire
Riddles in the Old English style
A Bibliography of 20th Century Alliterative Poetry
More installments in Linking Letters: A Field Guide to Alliterative Poetry
Michael Helsem
Three poems in Norse meters.
More Sample Translations from Beowulf
Waking slow behind the wheel ...
Lugging the legg'd thing out on the lawn ...
... Time, smell-coded ...
Translate classical Latin verse into alliterative poetry? Why not?
John Quinn expoits the rhythms of alliterative verse to capture
some
of Horace's sly, barbed humor in modern English.
William Dunbar - The Tretis of the Twa Mariit Women and the Wedo
(The treatise of the two married women and the widow - (Electronic Text Center)
Baden Chant - from his home page
The Lifting of the Siege
Jeffrey T. Cours - from Joseph Lockett's home page
Chepe's Epic (from the 8th Century A.M.)
Tilman Stieve from Alykat's World
A Song of the Valkyrior
Dr. David Breeden of Schreiner College
link to a free verse translation of Beowulf
P.K. Page (contemporary Canadian poet) - from the Canadian Poetry site
After Rain
Deaf Mute in the Pear Tree
Motel Pool
Note from the Editor:
Tapestries and Collages: some thoughts on poetry and the arts