{"id":49479,"date":"2021-09-02T05:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T02:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=49479"},"modified":"2021-09-02T05:40:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T02:40:09","slug":"the-20th-century-alliterative-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/the-20th-century-alliterative-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20th century alliterative revival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New in <em>Studies in the Fantastic<\/em>&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/801959\/summary\">&#8220;Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry&#8221;<\/a> ($ paywall)&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although alliterative poetry &#8230; 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. &#8230; Although this revival of alliterative metrics never reached the same &#8220;critical mass&#8221; of the fourteenth-century alliterative revival, it nonetheless shows how a non-professional antiquarian interest in medieval literature can foment a niche \u2014 yet surprisingly robust \u2014 body of genre poetry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New in Studies in the Fantastic&#8230; &#8220;Antiquarianism Underground: The Twentieth-century Alliterative Revival in American Genre Poetry&#8221; ($ paywall)&#8230; Although alliterative &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2021\/09\/02\/the-20th-century-alliterative-revival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}