Warren-Brooks Award

The Warren-Brooks Award for literary criticism was established to honor the innovative, critical interpretation of literature offered by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks to celebrate the continuation of such achievement. It is awarded for outstanding literary criticism originally published in English in the United States of America and is given in those years when a book, or other worthy publication, appears that exemplifies the Warren-Brooks effort in spirit, scope, and integrity.

The award is given annually by the advisory group of the Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at Western Kentucky University for outstanding literary criticism originally published in English in the United States.^[1]

Past Recipients

• 1995: Simpson, Lewis P., The Fable of the Southern Writer, LSU Press, 1995
• 1996: Winchell, Mark Royden, Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism, University of Virginia Press, 1996
• 1997: Hollander, John, The Work of Poetry, Columbia University Press, 1997
• 1998: Donoghue, Denis, The Practice of Reading, Yale University Press, 1998
• 1999: Schuchard, Ron, Eliot's Dark Angel, Oxford University Press, 1999
• 2000: Kermode, Sir Frank, Shakespeare's Language, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000
• 2001: Murphy, Paul V., The Rebuke of History North Carolina Press, 2001
• 2002: Burt, Stephen, Randall Jarrell and His Age Columbia University Press, November 2002
• 2003: Buell, Lawrence, Emerson, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003
• 2004: (shared) James H. Justus, Fetching the Old Southwest, University of Missouri Press; Marjorie Perloff, Differentials, University of Alabama Press
• 2005: Constance W. Hassett, “Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style,” University of Virginia Press, 2005
• 2006: Rosen, David, Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry,Yale University Press, 2006
• 2007: Rosen, David, Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry, Yale University Press, 2006

Notes

1. Web page titled "Yale Bulletin and Calendar/ Hollander receives Penn Warren-Brooks Award", accessed January 25, 2007

External links

• Web page description of the award