Winners of the Warren-Brooks Award
Let us ask, first, why we read literature at all. Ultimately, we read it because it gives us an image of the human soul confronting its fate.
Robert Penn Warren, “The Use of the Past” |
Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics University of Chicago Press Tobias Menely Winner-2022 |
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Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature University of Pennsylvania Press Ato Quayson Winner-2021 |
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Warren, Jarrell, and Lowell: Collaboration in the Reshaping of American Poetry Louisiana State University Press Joan Romano Shifflett Winner-2020 |
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Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845 University of Pennsylvania Press Tim Fulford Winner-2019 |
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Echoes of Emerson: Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather University of Alabama Press Diana Hope Polley Winner-2018 |
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The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others Princeton University Press Bonnie Costello Winner-2017 |
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Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic Bucknell University Press Vidyan Ravinthiran Winner-2016 |
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Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry University of Iowa Press Ann Keniston Winner-2015 |
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Seamus Heaney's Regions University of Notre Dame Press Richard Rankin Russell Winner-2014 |
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Musings on Mortality: Tolstoy to Primo Levi University of Chicago Press Victor Brombert Winner-2013 |
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The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930 Princeton University Press Meredith Martin Winner-2012 |
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The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton University of Chicago Press Richard Strier Winner-2011 |
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The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination University of Chicago Press Mark Payne Winner-2010 |
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Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading the Nun's Priest's Tale University of Notre Dame Press Peter Travis Winner-2009 |
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The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 Louisiana State University Press Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr. Winner-2008 |
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Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance University of Chicago Press Jeff Dolven Winner-2007 |
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Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry Yale University Press David Rosen Winner-2006 |
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Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style University of Virginia Press Constance Hassett Winner-2005 |
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Differentials: Poetry, Poetics, Pedagogy University of Alabama Press Marjorie Perloff Winner-2004 |
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Fetching the Old Southwest University of Missouri Press James Justus Winner-2004 |
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Emerson Harvard University Press Lawrence Buell Winner-2003 |
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Randall Jarrell and His Age Columbia University Press, November 2002 Stephanie Burt Winner-2002 |
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The Rebuke of History North Carolina, 2001 Paul V. Murphy Winner-2001 |
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Shakespeare's Language,
Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000 Sir Frank Kermode Winner-2000 |
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Eliot's Dark Angel,
Oxford, 1999 Ron Schuchard Winner-1999 |
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The Practice of Reading,
Yale, 1998 Denis Donoghue Winner-1998 |
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The Work of Poetry, Columbia, 1997 John Hollander Winner-1997 |
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Cleanth Brooks and the Rise
of Modern Criticism, Univ. of Va. Press, 1996 Mark Royden Winchell Winner-1996 |
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The Fable of the Southern
Writer, LSU Press, 1995 Lewis P. Simpson Winner-1995 |