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  • The Modern Alliterative Revival

Forgotten Ground Regained

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A Field Guide to Alliterative Verse
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  • 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
  • What happens when a literary tradition dies
  • Tapestries and Collages: Some thoughts on poetry and the arts
  • Translating Alliterative Poetry
  • Oodles of Awful Alliteration
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
  • 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
  • Eric Weiscott's Companion Website for Middle English Alliterative Poetry
  • Writing an Alliterative Poem in the Style of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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
  • Ancient Irish Poetic Forms Packet (from Russell Gilman Hunt's Home Page)
Essays
  • 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
Bibliographies
  • A Bibliography of 20th Century Alliterative Verse
  • Bibliography of Germanic Alliterative Meters
  • Derek Pearsall's 30-year Working Bibliography
  • Old English Meter from the Univ. of Virginia.
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