Hartford, Conn., February 5, 2007—Trinity College Assistant Professor of English David Rosen has won the distinguished Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism for his book, Power, Plain English, and the Rise of Modern Poetry (Yale, 2006).

Rosen, a member of the Trinity faculty since 2002, teaches courses on poetry and modern and contemporary British literature, including seminars on James Joyce, Tolkien, modernism/modernity, and modern poetry. In 2006, he received the Dean Arthur Hughes Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was previously a visiting assistant professor of English at Wesleyan University and an instructor at Yale University.

His publications include “Maturity and Poetic Style” (review essay of Helen Vendler’s Coming of Age as a Poet), Raritan; “T.S. Eliot and the Lost Youth of Modern Poetry,” Modern Language Quarterly; and “A Tale of Two Cities: Theology of Revolution,” Dickens Studies Annual. He received his Ph.D. from Yale in 2000.

The annual Warren-Brooks prize was established in 1995 to honor the innovative, critical interpretation of literature offered by literary scholars Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989) and Cleanth Brooks (1906-1994) and to celebrate the continuation of such achievement. It is awarded for outstanding literary criticism originally published in English in the United States 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. Past recipients have included John Hollander, Frank Kermode, Marjorie Perloff, and Stephen Burt.

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