Along with New Criticism, Brooks' studies of Faulkner, Southern literature, and T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" (appearing in "Modern Poetry and the Tradition") remain classic texts. Mark Royden Winchell calls Brooks' text on Faulkner "the best book yet on the works of William Faulkner" (1996). Eliot himself commended Brooks in a letter for Brooks' critique of "The Waste Land" (Singh 1991). Further, Winchell praises Brooks for "help invent the modern literary quarterly" (1996) through the success of "The Southern Review".