Part I: The Early Revival

C. S. LEWIS

JOHN D. NILES

FLETCHER PRATT and L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

JOHN MYERS MYERS

POUL ANDERSON

AVRAM DAVIDSON

L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP

EDWIN MORGAN

DARRELL SCHWEITZER

PAUL EDWIN ZIMMER (A)

ROBERT A. COOK

DIANA L. PAXSON

Part II: Society for Creative Anachronism

ANNE ETKIN

PAUL EDWIN ZIMMER (B)

JERE FLECK

BARCHAN THE KIPCHAK

PETER N. SCHWEITZER

DAVID FRIEDMAN

RON SNOW

SANDRA B. STRAUBHAAR

CHRISTIE WARD

FRIDA WESTFORD

JOHN RUBLE

MARY K. SAVELLI

ANA KEVENEY

LEIGH ANN HUSSEY

BETH MORRIS TANNER

DANIEL MARSH

ROBERT CUTHBERT

M. WENDY HENNEQUIN

Part III: Later Revivalists

MARCIE LYNN TENTCHOFF

JAMES DORR

JO WALTON

MICHAEL R. COLLINGS

FRANK COFFMAN

PAUL DOUGLAS DEANE

ADAM BOLIVAR

MICHAEL MCAFEE

JOSHUA GAGE

PATRICK ROTHFUSS

RAHUL GUPTA

MARY ALEXANDRA AGNER

MIKE BIERSCHENK

MICHAELA MACHA

MATH JONES

Part IV: Speculative Adjacent Poems

JAMES BLISH

P. K. PAGE

GEORGE JOHNSTON

EARLE BIRNEY

W. H. AUDEN

C. DAY-LEWIS

JOHN HEATH-STUBBS

CARTER REVARD

FRED CHAPPELL

MATTHEW DICKERSON

Appendices

Appendix A: Letter to the Editor of Star*Line, by Steve Rasnic

Appendix B: Metrical Essay on Three Alliterative Traditions

Appendix C: "The True Critics," by Paul Edwin Zimmer

Appendix D: A Selected Bibliography

In Speculative Poetry and the Modern Alliterative Revival, editor Dennis Wilson Wise argues that speculative poets over the last century have initiated a long unrecognized revival of medieval alliterative poetics. This anthology collects for the first time those poets-C. S. Lewis, Poul Anderson, and others-who have fomented this revival.

Dennis Wilson Wise is professor of practice and director of undergraduate studies in the English Department at the University of Arizona.