Charles Leslie Wrenn

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Name Charles Wrenn Role Poet		Died 1969
Books The English Language, A Study of Old English Literature, The Poetry of Caedmon, W. B. Yeats: A Literary Study Similar People Raymond Wilson Chambers, David Calcutt, John Niles, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Wilson

Charles Leslie Wrenn (1895–1969) was a British scholar. He became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at the University of Oxford in 1945, the successor in the chair of J.R.R. Tolkien, and held the position until 1963. Wrenn was a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was also a member of the Oxford literary discussion group known as the "Inklings", which included C. S. Lewis and Tolkien. Some of the work published by Wrenn includes The English Language (1949), A Study of Old English Literature (1967), and An Old English Grammar, written with Randolph Quirk (1955, rev. 1957). His literary interests were primarily comparative literature and later poets including T. S. Elliot.

Selected writings

The English Language by C.L. Wrenn. London: Methuen, 1949

Beowulf, with the Finnsburg fragment; edited by C. L. Wrenn. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1953. Rev. & enlarged ed. (=2nd ed.) London: Harrap, 1958. 3rd ed.; fully revised by W. F. Bolton. London: Harrap, 1973. (Reissued by the University of Exeter, 1988.)

An Old English Grammar; by Randolph Quirk and C. L. Wrenn. London: Methuen, 1955

English and Medieval Studies Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday; edited by Norman Davis and C. L. Wrenn. London: Allen and Unwin, 1962

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