The Colin Clout Lifetime Achievement Award, the most prestigious award given by the Society, is presented at variable intervals to a senior scholar whose body of work represents a wide-ranging, long-standing, and distinguished contribution to the study of Spenser. Nominations are made by the Executive Committee and Officers, who then vote upon a recipient.
2003
Harry Berger, Jr.
A. C. Hamilton
Thomas P. Roche, Jr.
2004
Paul J. Alpers
Judith H. Anderson
2005
Richard Helgerson
2007
Angus Fletcher
Anne Lake Prescott
2009
James Nohrnberg
2011
William Allan Oram
2017
Andrew Hadfield