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bibliography
Anglo-Saxon Poetry and the Amateur Archaeologist (1962)
Beowulf, with the Finnesburg Fragment (1953)
The English Language (1949)
English and Medieval Studies: Presented to J. R. R. Tolkien on the Occasion of His Seventieth Birthday (1962)
English Studies Today: Papers Read at the International Conference of University Professors of English, held in Magdalen College, Oxford, August 1950 (1951)
The Idea of Comparative Literature (1968)
An Old English Grammar (1955)
A Study of Old English Literature (1967)
Word and Symbol: Studies in English Language (1967)
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basic biography
Charles Leslie Wrenn was born in 1895. Not much is known of his early years, but he ended up as
a Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford. He was also a Professor at King's College, London, and in
1946 he came to succeed Tolkien's position as Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Oxford. Apparently he
was very academic, to the point where the Inklings felt like he needed some loosening up.
He became a serious member of the Inklings in the 1950s, particularly with the "ham-feast" of 1952.
It was C.S. Lewis who took the initiative to bring Wrenn into the group. He was liked by all, though
he was not as interested in playing about with fantasy writing and stuck to his academic field. He
died in 1969.
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