Forgotten Ground Regained
Dennis Wilson Wise
Dennis Wise teaches literature at the University of Arizona where his research focuses mainly on epic fantasy, Tolkien in particular. He's earned awards for teaching, scholarship, and service, and served as reviews editor for Fafnir: Nordic Journal of SFF Research when it became the first academic journal to ever win a World Fantasy Award. In 2024, Dennis published his first book, Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology.
He has published several articles on modern English alliterative verse, including:
- A Tale of Two Essays: The Inklings on the Alliterative Meter
- Carved in Granite: C.S. Lewis' Revivalism in The Nameless Isle
- Dating Sweet Desire: C.S. Lewis' Revivalism in The Nameless Isle
- Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry
- Poul Anderson and the American Alliterative Revival
- Paul Edwin Zimmer's Alliterative Style
He is also active on social media, where his offerings include an interview about Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival and the following seuquence of blog posts about modern alliterative poets on the Tales after Tolkien blog:
THE NEW POETS OF RUM RAMRUF
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