Forgotten Ground Regained
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), a professor at Oxford University, pretty much single-handedly brought alliterative verse back into the general culture through his work, both his alliterative poems in The Lord of the Rings and through the (mostly posthumous) publication of his long alliterative poems, including The Fall of Arthur and The Lays of Beleriand. His alliterative translations include one of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. However, lay readers will probably be most familiar with his alliterative poems publihed in Lord of the Rings:
However, his best alliterative work may be his allieraive verse drama, The Homecoming of Beortnoth Beorhthelm's-Son, which can be found ina small collection of his work, :Leaf by Niggle.