Charles Leslie Wrenn
English linguist and scholar of English literature
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Charles Leslie Wrenn 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. 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. Some of the work published by Wrenn includes The English Language , A Study of Old English Literature , and An Old English Grammar, written with Randolph Quirk . His literary interests were primarily comparative literature and later poets including T. S. Eliot.
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- An Old English Grammar (1956) (134)
- A Study of Old English Literature (1967) (59)
- Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language (1951) (42)
- Beowulf, with the Finnesburg Fragment (1963) (40)
- English and medieval studies : presented to J.R.R. Tolkien on the occasion of his seventieth birthday (1963) (25)
- Canadian Slavonic Papers (1959) (19)
- “STANDARD” OLD ENGLISH (1933) (18)
- The poetry of Caedmon (1978) (9)
- Beowulf and the Finnesburg fragment : a translation into modern English prose (1940) (8)
- The Kosciuszko Foundation Dictionary, English-Polish Polish-English. Vol. I. English-Polish (1960) (7)
- Cynewulf and the Cynewulf Canon (1944) (6)
- Word and symbol : studies in English language (1970) (5)
- Dostoyevski in Russian Literary Criticism 1846-1956 (1958) (4)
- ON THE CONTINUITY OF ENGLISH POETRY (1958) (4)
- Two Anglo-Saxon Harps (1962) (4)
- A SAGA OF THE ANGLO-SAXONS (1940) (4)
- Saxons and Celts in South-West Britain (1959) (4)
- Chaucer's Knowledge of Horace (1923) (2)
- English Studies Today (1952) (1)
- The Lyric Poems of Julius Slowacki (1959) (0)
- Modern Russian Literature, from Chekhov to the Present (1955) (0)
- English studies today : papers read at the International Conference of University Professers of English held in Magdalen College, Oxford, August, 1950 (1951) (0)
- The lost hunters : a story of wild man and great beasts (0)
- W.B. Yeats : a literary study (0)
- The English language (1952) (0)
- Icelandic Poems and Stories: Translations from Modern Icelandic Literature (1944) (0)
- T. S. Eliot and the Language of Poetry (1957) (0)
- An Anthology of Polish Literature (1960) (0)
- Polish Prose and Verse: A Selection with an Introductory Essay (1958) (0)
- A Study in Polish Morphology. The Genitive Singular Masculine (1958) (0)
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