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Charles Leslie Wrenn

Summary

Charles Leslie Wrenn (1895–1969) was an English scholar. After taking an MA at the University of Oxford, he worked for a year as a lecturer in the department of English Language and Literature at the University of Leeds in 1928–29.[1] Following his return to Oxford, he became Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon 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, and met for nearly two decades between the early 1930s and late 1949.[2] 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. Eliot.[3]

Selected writings edit

  • The English Language; by C. L. Wrenn. London: Methuen, 1949
  • Beowulf, with the Finnesburg 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. ISBN 0245509941.[4] (The latter was reissued by the University of Exeter in 1988, ISBN 0859893219.)
  • 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

References edit

  1. ^ The University of Leeds Calendar, 1928–29 (Leeds, 1928–29).
  2. ^ Kilby & Mead 1982, p. 230.
  3. ^ Glyer, Diana (2007). The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press. ISBN 978-0-87338-890-0.
  4. ^ Library of Congress catalogue records. Retrieved 2022-05-04.
    • "Beowulf, with the Finnesburg fragment" (1953)
    • "Beowulf, with the Finnesburg fragment" (Rev. and enl. ed., 1958)
    • "Beowulf, with the Finnesburg fragment" (3rd ed. rev., 1973)

External links edit

  • Photographs of C. L. Wrenn at the National Portrait Gallery
  • Charles Leslie Wrenn Books, Alibris
  • Publications by C. L. Wrenn listed in Copac
  • C. L. Wrenn at Library of Congress, with 30 library catalogue records