Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival

A Critical Anthology

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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2025 Mythopoeic Scholarship Award Finalist for Myth and Fantasy StudiesIf 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 akin to what once happened in the mid-fourteenth century. Altogether, this anthology collects for the first time over fifty speculative poets—several of whom are previously unpublished—from across North America and Europe. Alongside such established names as C. S. Lewis, Patrick Rothfuss, Edwin Morgan, Poul Anderson, Jo Walton, P. K. Page, and W. H. Auden, this anthology includes representative texts from cultural movements such as contemporary neo-Paganism and the Society for Creative Anachronism. A lengthy critical introduction by the editor—written accessibly for a general audience—explains and contextualizes the Modern Revival for critics and readers alike, and extensive footnotes offer aids to anyone new to medieval history or Norse mythology. Overall, this indispensable anthology—the first major academic book to focus on speculative poetry—establishes where the medieval meets the modern in the hitherto unrecognized Modern Alliterative Revival.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-12-08
Mått160 x 239 x 29 mm
Vikt758 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor426
FörlagAssociated University Presses
ISBN9781683933298

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Part I: The Early RevivalC. S. LEWISJOHN D. NILESFLETCHER PRATT and L. SPRAGUE DE CAMPJOHN MYERS MYERSPOUL ANDERSONAVRAM DAVIDSONL. SPRAGUE DE CAMPEDWIN MORGANDARRELL SCHWEITZERPAUL EDWIN ZIMMER (A)ROBERT A. COOKDIANA L. PAXSONPart II: Society for Creative AnachronismANNE ETKINPAUL EDWIN ZIMMER (B) JERE FLECKBARCHAN THE KIPCHAKPETER N. SCHWEITZERDAVID FRIEDMANRON SNOWSANDRA B. STRAUBHAARCHRISTIE WARDFRIDA WESTFORDJOHN RUBLEMARY K. SAVELLIANA KEVENEYLEIGH ANN HUSSEYBETH MORRIS TANNERDANIEL MARSHROBERT CUTHBERTM. WENDY HENNEQUINPart III: Later RevivalistsMARCIE LYNN TENTCHOFFJAMES DORRJO WALTONMICHAEL R. COLLINGSFRANK COFFMANPAUL DOUGLAS DEANEADAM BOLIVARMICHAEL MCAFEEJOSHUA GAGEPATRICK ROTHFUSSRAHUL GUPTAMARY ALEXANDRA AGNERMIKE BIERSCHENKMICHAELA MACHAMATH JONESPart IV: Speculative Adjacent PoemsJAMES BLISHP. K. PAGEGEORGE JOHNSTONEARLE BIRNEYW. H. AUDENC. DAY-LEWISJOHN HEATH-STUBBSCARTER REVARDFRED CHAPPELLMATTHEW DICKERSONAppendicesAppendix A: Letter to the Editor of Star*Line, by Steve RasnicAppendix B: Metrical Essay on Three Alliterative TraditionsAppendix C: “The True Critics,” by Paul Edwin ZimmerAppendix D: A Selected Bibliography

The phrase “alliterative poetry” immediately connotes archaism, and a literary tradition almost moribund since the mid-fifteenth century. University of Arizona academic Dennis Wilson Wise suggests that the form has been revived almost unnoticed over the last hundred years, and subtly shapes some modern literature, despite the indifference or even opposition of arbiters of taste... Wise’s dogged truffle-hunting across this redolent if sometimes rubbish-strewn terrain has uncovered some real prizes, at least some of which are almost certain to be new to even the most widely read. Hopefully, this welcome academic interest can help bring a degree of coherence to this sadly scattered field, and dedicated new adherents to this ancient art.