Rahul Gupta
Rahul Gupta earned his Ph.D. from the University of York He wrote his doctoral thesis on Old English and Norse poetry and the 19th-20th century mediævalist alliterative revival. His work has appeared in a variety of journals, including Agenda, Acumen, Eborakon, Equinox, Molly Bloom, Spectral Realms, and Wiðowinde.
His alliterative epic The Arthuriad has been praised as ‘the most accomplished, imaginative and technically-correct alliterative verse in Modern English since Tolkien’ (Tom Shippey) and as ‘one of the truly great mythic works of our time’ by John Matthews in The Temenos Academy Review, Issue 21, 2018.
The following poems and excerpts from Rahul Gupta's work are published on this site:
- Gleipnir: To Bind the Wolf
- Volund's Revenge
- The Illuminated Manuscript -- Excerpt from The Arthuriad, Part II, Interlude -- The Isle of the Mighty (oiginally published in Long Poem Magazine)
Additional excerpts from The Arthuriad appear in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse:
- An Army of Hallowe’en Toadstools
- The Wild Hunt of the Winter Wind
- The Winter Solstice Mumming Play
Additional excerpts include:
- Interlude, page 4 (originally published in Long Poem Magazine)
Some of his other original alliterative poems include:
He has done a number of alliterative translations, including:
Beowulf
Other Old English Poems
Poetic Edda
Middle English
Niebelungenlied
- Richard Wagner, 'Siegfried' Act 3 Sc1: Alliterative Translation