Charles Glenn Wallis (1914–1944) was an American poetNo Mortal Blow, Charles Glenn Wallis, Contemporary Poetry, Baltimore Maryland, 1944 and English translator of French, Classical GreekNo Mortal Blow p.37 - 55 and Latin.Great Books of the Western World, 1952, Vol 16 p.481, p.505, p845
He graduated in 1936 with a BA from the University of Virginia. During 1936-37 he was a member of the Committee on Liberal Education at the University of Chicago. From July 1937 until 1942, he was a tutor and editor at St. John's College in Maryland.St. John's College Catalogue 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940 and 1941 During those years in his twenties, he was the first person to translate numerous difficult late medieval and early modern texts into English from Latin, including Copernicus' On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Kepler's Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, and Harmonies of the World,Great Books of the Western World, 1952, Vol. 16 p.492 as well as the 12th-13th century English Philosopher Robert Grosseteste's On Light.Robert Grosseteste, On Light, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1942, p.9 One of his stories, "The Return", was published posthumously in Nicholas Moore and Douglas Newton's Atlantic Anthology (1945).Nicholas Moore and Douglas Newton, ed., Atlantic Anthology. London, Fortune Press, 1945, pp. 97-102 Like a number of his poems, it is homoerotic in content.
His parents were Benjamin Hayward Wallis and Eleanor Sewell Glenn. He was eight months old when his father diedNo Mortal Blow p.33 on Jan 4, 1915.The Wallis Family of Kent county Maryland, Guy Wallis 2011 p.99 Charles Glenn himself died at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York City on May 4, 1944, on or near his 30th birthdayWallis Family p.99 from injuries suffered in an accidental fall.Baltimore Sun, May 5, 1944, p.6
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