On September 1st I participated in a conference on New Perspectives on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History. It was organized by Tim Anderson, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of …| Idiosophy
As presented at “New Perspectives on Alliteration in Poetry and Cultural History”, University of East Anglia, 1 September 2025 1. Introduction What’s the purpose of alliteration in modern poetry? The oldest answer I could find to that question is from 1902. Talking about Shakespeare’s sonnets, Thomas R. Price said, “As the result of the caesura […]| Idiosophy
Corey Olsen gave a talk at Mythmoot XI on the subject of Gimli’s song about the glory days of Moria. (LotR, II iv.) He began with the fact that the song’s rhythm is iambic tetrameter, s…| Idiosophy
