Tag Archives: John Keats

The Top New Posts of 2020 on A Pilgrim in Narnia

Posted on January 5, 2021 by Brenton Dickieson

2020 was the busiest year ever on A Pilgrim in Narnia! And by a pretty big margin. In 2020, we topped 1,000 posts, blew past our 1,000,000th page view, and passed 200,000 hits in a single year for the first … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links, Reviews, Throwback Thursdays | Tagged Anne’s House of Dreams, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Tolkien, fantasy, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Keats, L.M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Narnia, Rainbow Valley, Ransom Cycle, SF, The Inklings, The MaudCast, The Problem of Susan, The Screwtape Letters, Tolkien, Walter Hooper | Leave a comment

Coleridge’s “Christabel,” Keats’ “La Belle Dame sans Merci,” and Early English Vampire Poems

Posted on September 8, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

I am preparing for my next discussion in “Folkloric Transformations: Vampires and Big Bad Wolves” at Signum University, and we have assigned Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s turn-of-the-century poem, “Christabel” (1797-1800). This 677-line poem comes out of Coleridge’s attempts to re-stage English … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughtful Essays | Tagged Anne Rice, Carmilla, Christabel, Fledgling, Frankenstein, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, John William Polidori, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, La Belle Dame sans Merci, Lord Byron, mary shelley, Octavia Butler, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Vampyre, Vampire Chronicles, Vampire Fiction, vampires | 15 Comments

The World as a “Vale of Soul-Making”: A Brief Note on John Keats, C.S. Lewis, and L.M. Montgomery

Posted on May 21, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

There is a stunning moment in L.M. Montgomery’s Rainbow Valley that continues to itch at my mind. I know that Anne of Green Gables is so filled with life and light that it is hard to ignore, and that Montgomery‘s Emily of New … Continue reading →