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.

==Past Recipients== Past winners of the award include: *1995: Simpson, Lewis P., ''The Fable of the Southern Writer'', LSU Press, 1995<ref name="wku">{{citation|url=https://www.wku.edu/rpw/navigation/rpw_bookprize_winners.php|title=Previous Winners of the Warren-Brooks Award|work=Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at WKU|publisher=Western Kentucky University|access-date=2018-09-18}}</ref> *1996: Winchell, Mark Royden, ''Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism'', University of Virginia Press, 1996<ref name="wku"/> *1997: Hollander, John, ''The Work of Poetry'', Columbia University Press, 1997 *1998: Donoghue, Denis, ''The Practice of Reading'', Yale University Press, 1998<ref name="wku"/> *1999: Schuchard, Ron, ''Eliot's Dark Angel'', Oxford University Press, 1999<ref name="wku"/> *2000: Kermode, Sir Frank, ''Shakespeare's Language'', Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000<ref name="wku"/> *2001: Murphy, Paul V., ''The Rebuke of History'' North Carolina Press, 2001<ref name="wku"/> *2002: Burt, Stephanie, ''Randall Jarrell and His Age'' Columbia University Press, November 2002<ref name="wku"/> *2003: Buell, Lawrence, ''Emerson'', The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2003<ref name="wku"/> *2004: (shared) Justus, James H., ''Fetching the Old Southwest'', University of Missouri Press; Perloff, Marjorie, ''Differentials'', University of Alabama Press<ref name="wku"/> *2005: Hassett, Constance W., “Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style,” University of Virginia Press, 2005<ref name="wku"/> *2006: Rosen, David, ''Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry'', Yale University Press, 2006<ref name="wku"/> *2007: Dolven, Jeff, ''Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance'', University of Chicago Press, 2007<ref name="wku"/> *2008: Brinkmeyer, Robert Jr., ''The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950'', Louisiana State University Press, 2008<ref name="wku"/> *2009: Travis, Peter, ''Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading the Nun's Priest's Tale'', University of Notre Dame Press, 2009<ref name="wku"/> *2010: Payne, Mark, ''The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination'', University of Chicago Press, 2010<ref name="wku"/> *2011: Strier, Richard, ''The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton'', University of Chicago Press, 2011<ref name="wku"/> *2012: Martin, Meredith, ''The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930'', Princeton University Press, 2012<ref name="wku"/> *2013: Brombert, Victor, ''Musings on Mortality: Tolstoy to Primo Levi'', University of Chicago Press, 2013<ref name="wku"/> *2014: Russell, Richard Rankin, ''Seamus Heaney's Regions'', University of Notre Dame Press, 2014<ref name="wku"/> *2015: Keniston, Ann, ''Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry'', University of Iowa Press, 2015<ref name="wku"/> *2016: Ravinthiran, Vidyan, ''Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic'', Bucknell University Press, 2016 *2017: Costello, Bonnie, ''The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others'', Princeton University Press, 2017<ref name="wku"/> *2018: Polley, Diana Hope, ''Echoes of Emerson: Rethinking Realism in Twain, James, Wharton, and Cather'', University Alabama Press, 2017<ref name="2018w">{{citation|url=https://www.wku.edu/news/articles/index.php?view=article&articleid=7549 |title=Warren-Brooks Award recipient to present lecture April 26 at WKU |date=2019-04-09|publisher=WKU|access-date=2021-08-09}}</ref> *2019: Fulford, Tim, ''Wordsworth's Poetry, 1815-1845'', University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019<ref name="2019w">{{citation|url=https://www.wku.edu/news/articles/index.php?view=article&articleid=8441 |title=Book by Tim Fulford selected as winner of Warren-Brooks Award |date=2020-01-28|publisher=WKU|access-date=2021-08-09}}</ref> *2020: Shifflett, Joan Romano, ''Warren, Jarrell, & Lowell: Collaboration in the Reshaping of American Poetry'', Louisiana State University Press, 2020<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.wnky.com/joan-romano-shifflett-winner-of-2020-warren-brooks-award-to-give-book-prize-lecture-at-the-annual-meeting-of-the-robert-penn-warren-circle/|title=Joan Romano Shifflett, winner of 2020 Warren-Brooks Award, to give Book Prize Lecture at the annual meeting of the Robert Penn Warren Circle|date=2021-04-22|publisher=WNKY|access-date=2021-08-08}}</ref> *2021: Quayson, Ato, ''Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature'', Cambridge University Press, 2021<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.wku.edu/news/articles/index.php?view=article&articleid=10232#:~:text=The%20Warren%2DBrooks%20Award%2C%20presented,and%20his%20frequent%20collaborator%2C%20Brooks|title=Ato Quayson named winner of 2021 Warren-Brooks Award|date=2021-03-02|publisher=WKU|access-date=2022-10-09}}</ref> *2022: Menely, Tobias, ''Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics'', University of Chicago Press, 2021<ref>{{citation|url=https://www.wku.edu/pcal/news/index.php?view=article&articleid=11087#:~:text=Climate%20and%20the%20Making%20of,outstanding%20literary%20scholarship%20and%20criticism.|title=Book by Tobias Menely selected as winner of Warren-Brooks Award|date=2023-02-13|publisher=WKU|access-date=2023-02-21}}</ref>

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