Bret van den Brink

Bret van den Brink has been a member of Linktree for 3 years and joined in September 2022. Resources bretv has populated their site with include: • “Blue, Glossy Green, and Velvet Black” • Orchestra: Or, A Poem of Dancing • Christ as the Divine Cupid • Book Review: "Great Silent Ballad" by A.F. Moritz • Echoing the Deep Heart’s “Core” • "the distant glitter / Of the January sun" • The Mercy of Keats’s “Belle Dame” • The Mourning Earth • “Waking Dreams” in Poesy’s Woods • “A Lion’s Kiss” • Mandatory Media Podcast • Paradise Lost’s ‘Sad Cure’ as a Source for Wallace Stevens’s ‘Cure Beyond Forgetfulness’ in ‘The Rock’ • “Beatrice Nest, White Goddess: Romance and Ecology in A.S. Byatt’s Possession: A Romance.” The Robert Graves Review: The Online Journal of the Robert Graves Society, vol. 1, no. 4, 2024. • “Compassion’s Sweet Poison: The Sources of Thomas Merton’s ‘Origen.’” The Merton Annual: Studies in Culture, Spirituality and Social Concerns, vol. 35, 2023, pp. 151–62. • “What You Will: Double Predestination and the Plot of Twelfth Night.” Sinestesieonline: Periodico Quadrimestrale Di Letteratura E Arti Della Modernità, vol. 40, 2023. • “Beasts and Bestiality, Deities and Deification: Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy in Milton’s Comus.” The Oswald Review: An International Journal of Undergraduate Research and Criticism in the Discipline of English, vol. 24, 2022, pp. 9–23. • The Patient Bride: A Vision in a Dream • An Apple Tree; or, Hesperian Fables • Summer and Winter • Measure for Measure: Five Readings • On Reading “Binsey Poplars” • Two Sonnets • St. Edith Stein: Doctor of Empathy - Radix Magazine • The Empathetic Imagination - Radix Magazine • That Sudden, Joyous Turn - Christian Courier • “The Art of Lying, or Fantasy’s Imitatio Dei: On Sir Philip Sidney, J.R.R. Tolkien, and David Bentley Hart” - Radix Magazine • ​​Fifty Years of Influence: On Harold Bloom’s Legacy — Mars' Hill Newspaper • “Harrowing the Witch’s Castle: Reading the Soteriology of Narnia with Gregory of Nyssa” in the Norma Marion Alloway Library • “A Medieval Twitter Fight? Simon Armitage’s The Owl and the Nightingale” in [spaces] Reviews • “Venting my Spleen: Complaints Concerning Cocaine Bear” in Mars’ Hill, Volume 27, Issue 9, Arts & Culture • “Bringing Big Jack Horner Down to Size: A Review of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” in Mars’ Hill, Volume 27, Issue 8, Arts & Culture • “On Strange Titles: Peeling Open Glass Onion” in Mars’ Hill, Volume 27, Issue 7, Arts & Culture • “Chivalry Undead: Reflections on The Knight Before Christmas” in Mars’ Hill, Volume 27, Issue 6, Arts & Culture • “Epicureans, et al.: Reflections on Dead Poets Society” in Mars’ Hill, Volume 27, Issue 5, Arts & Culture • “Carnations and Incarnations: Reflections on Taylor Swift’s Midnights” in Mars’ Hill, Volume 27, Issue 4, Arts & Culture • “A Brief History of Western Theology” in Mars’ Hill, Volume 27, Issue 4, Humour • “Equality, Order, and the Rule of Law” in The Law Society of British Columbia’s Bencher’s Bulletin Fall 2019