New in Studies in the Fantastic… “Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry” ($ paywall)…

Although alliterative poetry … first flourished in Old English and Old Norse literature, a resurgence of the meter appeared within the twentieth century. The most famous modern practitioners have been J.R.R. Tolkien, Ezra Pound, and W.H. Auden, but a wholly neglected subset of the alliterative revival involves American genre poets working in fantasy, horror, and science fiction. … Although this revival of alliterative metrics never reached the same “critical mass” of the fourteenth-century alliterative revival, it nonetheless shows how a non-professional antiquarian interest in medieval literature can foment a niche — yet surprisingly robust — body of genre poetry.