Alliterative Poetry: Forms and Techniques

Notes on Forms and Techniques

From the editor:
Linking Letters: A Poet's Guide to Alliterative Verse

Bibliographies

A Bibliography of 20th Century Alliterative Verse

A Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters compiled by Kari Ellen Gade and R.D. Fulk

Derek Pearsall's 30-year Working Bibliography
Part VI -- Alliterative Poetry
           from the Geoffrey Chaucer website.

Old English Meter from the Univ. of Virginia.

Elsewhere on the Web:

General Overviews
Old English alliterative verse
Norse and Icelandic alliterative verse
Irish and Welsh verse forms
Other Subjects

Overview pages     up to top

Alliteration
           - from the Words & Stuff web page

Accentual Verse by Dana Gioia

Old English alliterative verse     up to top

Old English Metrics
           - from Winlandes Scir

Anglo-Saxon Alliterative Verse
           - from Arnaut and Karkur's ultimate online prosody resource

Norse and Icelandic alliterative verse     up to top

Nordic Prosody
           - from Arnaut and Karkur's ultimate online prosody resource

Formal Features of Jonas Hallgrimsson's Poetry
          - from the Jonas Hallgrimsson site

Irish and Welsh verse forms     up to top

Ancient Irish Poetic Forms Packet
           - from Russell Gilman Hunt's Home Page

Other Subjects     up to top

Alliterative Poetry and J.R.R. Tolkien