Yale faculty members David Bromwich and R.W.B. Lewis have been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters for their literary achievements.
Bromwich, the Bird White Housum Professor of English and director of the Whitney Humanities Center, received the Academy Award for Literature. The award, which recognizes the body of the recipient's work, is made every two years and carries a prize of $7,500.
Lewis, the Neil Gray Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric, received the Gold Medal for biography, an award that is given only once every six years.
A respected authority on Romantic and modern poetry and literary criticism, Bromwich is the author of "Disowned by Memory: Wordsworth's Poetry of the 1790s," "Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking" and "Hazlitt: The Mind of the Critic," among other major works. He has co-edited the textbook "Literature as Experience" and the anthology "Romantic Critical Essays" and is a frequent contributor to academic journals. His editorials and reviews often appear in such publications as The New York Times, The New Republic and New York Review of Books. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Bromwich holds his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Yale and was the Mellon Professor of English at Princeton before joining the Yale faculty in 1988.
Lewis is perhaps best known as the author of "Edith Wharton: A Biography," for which he received the 1976 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, among other honors. His other books include "The American Adam," "The Picaresque Saint," "Trials of the Word" (a collection of essays) and "The Jameses: A Family Narrative." His 1968 work, "The Poetry of Hart Crane," helped to establish the poet's stature as a major figure of modern American literature. His most recent book, "American Characters" (Yale University Press, 1999) is a joint venture with his wife, Nancy Lewis. The book combines pictures of historical American figures from the National Portrait Gallery with "literary portraits" of them by their often equally illustrious contemporaries.
Lewis, who had joint appointments in the American Studies and English departments, retired in 1988 after teaching at Yale for 28 years. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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