Charles Leslie Wrenn

Charles Leslie Wrenn also CL Wrenn (* 1895, † 1969) was a British philologist and professor of Anglo-Saxon linguistics ( Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo - Saxon ).

Life

Wrenn taught from 1945 to 1963 as a Fellow of Pembroke College at Oxford University. He was the successor of JRR Tolkien, who previously held this position. Like Tolkien, he was a member of the association " Inklings ", which belonged to other professors and writers such as CS Lewis, Nevill Coghill, Colin Hardie or Hugo Dyson.

Writings

• C. L Wrenn: The poetry of Caedmon. in: Sir Israel Gollancz memorial lecture. London in 1946, OCLC 799171st
• C. L Wrenn: The English language. In: Home study books, 8 Methuen, London around 1949, OCLC 2,157,330th
• CL Wrenn, JR Clark Hall, Fr Klaeber, JRR Tolkien: Beowulf: with the Finn Castle fragment. Allen & Unwin, London 1950, OCLC 1498992nd
• CL Wrenn, Randolph Quirk: An Old English grammar. in: Methuen 's Old English library. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, OCLC 317,904th
• C. L Wrenn, Norman Davis: English and medieval studies, presented to JRR Tolkien on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Allen & Unwin, London around 1962, OCLC 316351st
• C. L Wrenn: Anglo- Saxon poetry and the amateur archaeologist. In: Chambers Memorial lectures. University College, London in 1962, OCLC 4,427,773th
• C. L Wrenn, RW Chambers: Beowulf: an introduction to the studies of the poem with a discussion of the stories of Offa and Finn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1963, OCLC 9,763,509th
• C. L Wrenn: Word and symbol: studies in English language. in: English language series. Longmans, London 1967, OCLC 317,280th
• C. L Wrenn: A study of Old English literature. W. W. Norton, New York 1968, OCLC 403,358th
• C. L Wrenn: The idea of ​​comparative literature. probably in Cambridge, 1968, OCLC 193,427th