The Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award has been presented this year to John Hollander, Sterling Professor of English, for his 1997 book "The Work of Poetry" (Columbia University Press). The award will be presented on April 26 during a ceremony at Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green. The Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award honors the two Kentucky natives who became professors in Yale's English department and who were coauthors of the textbooks "Understanding Poetry" and "Understanding Fiction." The award was established in 1995 through an endowed fund by the late Eleanor Clark Warren and the estate of Robert Penn Warren. It 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. Hollander is the third recipient of the award.
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