Center for Robert Penn Warren Studies at WKU
Previous Winners of the Warren-Brooks Award
The following books have been honored with the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award:
| 1994-95 | Lewis P. Simpson, The Fable of the Southern Writer |
| 1996 | Mark Royden Winchell, Cleanth Brooks and the Rise of Modern Criticism |
| 1997 | John Hollander, The Work of Poetry |
| 1998 | Denis Donoghue, The Practice of Reading |
| 1999 | Richard Schuchard, Eliot's Dark Angel |
| 2000 | Sir Frank Kermode, Shakespeare's Language |
| 2001 | Paul V. Murphy, The Rebuke of History |
| 2002 | Stephen Burt, Randall Jarrell and His Age |
| 2003 | Laurence Buell, Emerson |
| 2004 | James H. Justus, Fetching the Old Southwest |
| Marjorie Perloff, Differentials | |
| 2005 | Constance Hassett, Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style |
| 2006 | David Rosen, Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry |
| 2007 | Jeff Dolven, Scenes of Instruction in Renaissance Romance |
| 2008 | Robert Brinkmeyer, Jr., The Fourth Ghost: White Southern Writers and European Fascism, 1930-1950 |
| 2009 | Peter W. Travis, Disseminal Chaucer: Rereading the Nun's Priest's Tale |
| 2010 | Mark Payne, The Animal Part: Human and Other Animals in the Poetic Imagination |
| 2011 | Richard Strier, The Unrepentant Renaissance: From Petrarch to Shakespeare to Milton |
| 2012 | Meredith Martin, The Rise and Fall of Meter: Poetry and English National Culture, 1860-1930 |
| 2013 | Victor Brombert, Musings on Mortality: Tolstoy to Primo Levi |
| 2014 | Richard Rankin Russell, Seamus Heaney's Regions |
| 2015 | Dr. Ann Keniston, Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belateness in American Postwar Poetry |
| 2016 | Dr. Vidyan Ravinthiran, Elizabeth Bishop's Prosaic |
| 2017 | Dr. Bonnie Costello, The Plural of Us: Poetry and Community in Auden and Others |
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