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Resources
A Field Guide to Alliterative Verse
- Part I, Getting Oriented
- Part II, The Lay of the Land
- Part III, Building Poetry with Phrases
- Part IV, Linking Half-Lines Together
- Part V, Rules for Alliteration
- Part VI, Rhythm: Lifts and Dips
- Part VII, What Makes a Strong Stress?
- Part VIII, Syllable Weight and Resolution
- Part IX, Secondary Stress; Strong and Weak Dips
- Part X, Alliterative Meters: Historical and Modern
- Part XI, Being like Beowulf: the Sievers Types
- Part XII, The Meter of Beowulf: Variants of the Five Types
- Part XIII, The Meter of Beowulf: A Framework
- Part XIV, A Prosodic Primer
- Part XV, Mimicking Old English Alliterative Verse
- Part XVI, Alliterative Meter versus Accentual Tetrameter
- Part XVII, Mimicking Middle English Alliterative Verse
Notes from the Editor
Tolkien and Alliterative Verse
- Anna Smol's Website on Tolkien and Alliterative Verse
- The Prancing Pony Podcast (more general resource, but great fans of alliterative verse)
Essays and Articles
- Tolkien's Develoment as a Writer of Alliterative Verse by Tom Shippey
- Dating Sweet Desire: C.S. Lewis' Education in Alliterative Poetrcs b Dennis Wise
- The Theory and Practice of Alliterative Verse in the Work of J.R.R. Tolkien by Mark Hall
- J.R.R. Tolkien's "Homecoming" and Modern Alliterative Metre by Smol and Foster
- Eomer Gets Poetic: Tolkien's Alliterative Versecraft by James Shelton
- Music in Middle Earth by Gene Hargrove
- The Density of Alliterative Lines in Tolkien's Prose
- A Sudden Outcry: The Tolkien Estate and Fanworks
Other Resources
Overview Pages
- The Old Alliterative Verse Form as a Medium for Poetry by John D. Niles
- C.S. Lewis' article on "The Alliterative Metre"
- Wikipedia article on alliterative verse
- PDF of Wikipedia Article (as of 12/2/2023)
- Alliteration (from the Words & Stuff web page)
- Accentual Verse by Dana Gioia
- Alliterative Verse / Avante-Garde by Eric Weiskott
Old English Alliterative Verse
- Building Blocks of Old English Poetry by Dr. Wendy Hennequin
- Old English Metrics (from Winlandes Scir)
- Anglo-Saxon Alliterative Verse (from Arnaut and Karkur's ultimate online prosody resource)
Middle English Alliterative Verse
Norse and Icelandic alliterative verse
- 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
Essays
- Carved in Granite: C.S. Lewis' Revivalism in The Nameless Isle
- Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry by Dennis Wise
- Poul Anderson and the American Alliterative Revival by Dennis Wise
- Paul Edwin Zimmer's Alliterative Style by Dennis Wise
- The Later Poetry of George Johnston by W. J. Keith
- Alliterative Verse/Avante Garde by Erick Weiskott
- Alliteration's Art and Aptful Aim by Ed Simon
- Poetic Meter in English: Roots and Possibilities by Richard Moore
- Against Free Verse by Thomas Fleming
- The End of the Line for Modern Poetry by Tim Love
- Notes and Cogitations on the Line and Foot in Free Verse by Fred Beake
- What was Formalism? by Eliot Weinberger