Tag Archives: literary friendship

Introducing C.S. Lewis’ Unfinished Teenage Novel “The Quest of Bleheris”

Posted on May 29, 2023 by Brenton Dickieson

Hello friends! I want to share what I have been up to in the last few weeks. Some folks will know that I have been working for about nine years on C.S. Lewis’ unfinished teenage Arthurian novel, “The Quest of … Continue reading →

Posted in Original Research, Reflections | Tagged Arthur Greeves, C.S. Lewis, Creative Collaboration, Diana Pavlac Glyer, Don King, friendship, Inklings, intertextuality, J.R.R. Tolkien, literary friendship, Phantastes, The Company They Keep, The Quest of Bleheris, The Ransom Cycle, William Morris, writing | 17 Comments

Bunyan and Others and Me: Vicarious Bookshelf Friendship and a Jazz Hands Theory of Reading

Posted on March 22, 2022 by Brenton Dickieson

I have been quite open about the fact that I have had some difficulty finding true sympathy with John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress. I even went so far as to admit that the text at one time had been for … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections | Tagged A Pilgrim's Regress, Auerbach, C.S. Lewis, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Dante, Enid Blyton, George MacDonald, Harold Bloom, Huckleberry Finn, Jane Eyre, John Bunyan, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, literary friendship, Little Women, Louisa May Alcott., Mark Twain, Middlemarch, Milton, mimesis, Prince Edward Island, Spenser, The Allegory of Love, The Land of Far-Beyond, The Pilgrim's Progress | 9 Comments

L.M. Montgomery Articles on A Pilgrim In Narnia

Posted on June 26, 2020 by Brenton Dickieson

Including posts for the 2020 Vision Forum, the launch of the Maudcast, and my 2018 spring L.M. Montgomery series, I have published more than two dozen notes and articles on Montgomery and her work! And I still have a few … Continue reading →

Posted in L.M. Montgomery | Tagged Anne's House of Dreams, C.S. Lewis, Emily of New Moon, Jane Austen, L.M. Montgomery, literary friendship, Louisa May Alcott., Lucy Maud Montgomery, Rainbow Valley, Sehnsucht, The Alpine Path | 5 Comments

The Regent College BS Guild and the Inklings

Posted on June 26, 2018 by Brenton Dickieson

It was a brief and intensely happy time of my life. My wife and I moved from rural Japan to the grand city of Vancouver. Never having lived in anything more than a small town and moving from a mountain … Continue reading →

Posted in Thoughtful Essays | Tagged Babette's Feast, Biblical Studies Guild, BS Guild, C.S. Lewis, Charles Williams, friendship, Inklings, J.R.R. Tolkien, Japan, literary friendship, Regent College, Settlers of Catan, The Drive, The Inklings, theology, Vancouver | 31 Comments

A Call for Literary Patrons

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Brenton Dickieson

I still have not found the words—or the time to search very hard—to describe the sublime experience of my research and conference trip to the Midwest these past couple of weeks. I spent nearly five days in archival and secondary … Continue reading →