Tag Archives: Oxford

Wow, What a Fall!

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

Or a trip–choose your double entendre. I have been impeccably busy these last few weeks, so that family meals have been like Gatorade cups in a marathon, and my garden has started to engulf the neighbour’s Buick. The wood is … Continue reading →

Posted in News & Links | Tagged academic, C.S. Lewis, fantasy, Inklings, ISRLC, literature, Oxford, Ransom Trilogy, Teaching, The Screwtape Letters, theology, writing | 8 Comments

On Leprechauns

Posted on March 17, 2014 by Brenton Dickieson

I don’t know about you, but I always put leprechauns in a special category. I knew there was a tinge of danger there–an ambivalence that makes them untrustworthy woodfolk. I am, unfortunately, more affected by Lucky Charms commercials in childhood … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Reviews | Tagged C.S. Lewis, Disney, faerie, fairy tales, folklore, George MacDonald, leprechauns, literature, Lucky Charms, Milton, myth, Oxford, Spenser, St. Patrick, The Discarded Image | 23 Comments

C.S. Lewis’s Faerie Lecture, and a Prince Edward Island Folktale

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

C.S. Lewis gave a lecture on Faeries at the oldest and (arguably) most prestigious university in the English world. He did this lecture often, and he did it with a straight face. It is, of course, perfectly normal for universities … Continue reading →

Posted in Reflections, Reviews | Tagged books, faerie, fairy tales, folklore, George MacDonald, literature, medieval literature, Milton, myth, Oxford, Prince Edward Island, renaissance literature, Spenser | 40 Comments

C.S. Lewis Wasn’t Just Smarter Than Me… Hints on Education from a Remarkable Letter

Posted on September 10, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

There is some irony in the fact that I’m working hard to get a PhD in C.S. Lewis so that I can teach at a university, when Lewis himself—Professor at Cambridge for nine years and Don at Oxford for thirty—never … Continue reading →

Posted in Letters, Reflections | Tagged books, C.S. Lewis, Education, joel heck, Leo Baker, literature, Oxford, phd students, Poetry, writing | 12 Comments

How I Learned to Speak British, or A Review of David Downing’s “Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel”

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Brenton Dickieson

I find myself in the rather delicate position of critiquing the personal work of one with whom I’ve supped—ah, there it is, I’ve caught myself speaking in 1940s Oxford English again. It has been slipping out lately, I’m afraid. Given … Continue reading →