2008- James H. Donelan Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic (Cambridge UP)

2007- Melissa Frazier Romantic Encounters: Writers, Readers, and the "Library for Reading" (Stanford UP)

2006- Award Shared by:

Leon Chai, Romantic Theory: Forms or Reflexivity in the Revolutionar Era (Johns Hopkins UP)

James O'Rourke, Sex, Lies and Autobiography: The Ethics of Confession (U of Virginia P)

Larry H. Peer and Diane Long Hoeveler, Romanticism: Comparative Discourses (Ashgate)

2005- Kari Lokke, Tracing Women's Romanticism: Gender, History, and Transcendence (Routledge)

2004- Theodore Ziolkowski, Clio the Romantic Muse: Historicizing the Faculties in Germany (Cornell UP)

2003- Paul Hamilton, Metaromanticism: Aesthetics, Literature, Theory (U of Chicago P)

2002- Ian Balfour, The Rhetoric of Romantic Prophecy (Stanford UP)

2001- Ann Rigney, Imperfect Histories (Cornell UP)

2000- Joshua Wilner, Feeding on Infinity: Readings in the Romantic Rhetoric of Internalization (Johns Hopkins UP)

1998- Award Shared by:

Richard Eldrige, Leading a Human Life:Wittgenstein, Intentionality and Romanticism (U of Chicago P)

Kenneth R. Johnston, The Hidden Wordsworth; Poet, Lover, Rebel, Spy (Norton)

1997- Susan J. Wolfson, Formal Changes: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism, (Stanford UP)

1996- Frederick Burwick, Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination, (Pennsylvania State UP)

1995- Joycelyne Kolb, The Ambiguity of Taste: Freedom and Food in European Romanticism (U of Michigan P)

1994- Alan Richardson, Literature, Education, and Romanticism: Reading as Social Practice 1780-1832 (Cambridge UP)

1993- David Simpson, Romanticism, Nationalism and the Revolt Against Theory, (U of Chicago P)