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The Unity of Middle English Alliterative Poetry
Speculum, 1983The basic unity of the Middle English alliterative verse corpus has often been asserted. In the 1970s, Geoffrey Shepherd conceded the enormous variety of alliterative poems in style and outlook, but argued that "they stand in a continuum" whose terms are "moral insight and historical truth'';1 Thorlac Turville-Petre claimed that "we are here dealing ...
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Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival
2023If a literary movement arises but no one notices, is it still a movement? In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival: A Critical Anthology, Dennis Wilson Wise argues that the answer is “yes.” Over the last ten decades, poets working in fantasy, science fiction, and horror have collectively brought forth a revival in alliterative poetics ...
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Strophic Patterns in Middle English Alliterative Poetry
Modern Philology, 1977It has been clear for a very long time that the fourteenth-century Alliterative Revival was no revival at all, that the appearance of a substantial number of poems written in the native alliterative measure was not a conscious literary resurrection of a dead or moribund English tradition.
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Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry
Studies in the Fantastic, 2021Although alliterative poetry—a medieval Germanic meter based on similar-sounding initial stressed syllables—first flourished in Old English and Old Norse literature, a resurgence of the meter has appeared within the twentieth century. The most famous modern practitioners have been J. R. R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound, and W. H.
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Alliterative lexical collocations in eddic poetry
2016Lexical collocations stem from the diction of traditional oral alliterative poetry and may be regarded as one of the stylistic features which characterise the corpus of mythological and heroic lays preserved in Codex Regius (GKS 2365, 4°). The versifiers’ creation of privileged, though not necessarily semantically close, combinations of two or more ...
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Alliterative Narrative Poetry: The Control of the Medium
Traditio, 1988Critical approaches to alliterative poetry can and do include all the approaches imposed on literature in general. But to these must be added approaches particular to the fact that we confront a body of literature defined by a distinctive, some would say peculiar, metrical form.
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