E.J. Pratt

E.J. Pratt
Author: Elizabeth Popham
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 792
Release: 2017-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1442650230

The English Library of the University of Toronto presents information on Canadian poet Edwin John Pratt (1882-?). The library offers biographical information on Pratt, the full text of several of Pratt's poems, and a bibliography of his works.

E.J. Pratt

E.J. Pratt
Author: David George Pitt
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1158
Release: 1969
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

The E.J. Pratt Symposium

The E.J. Pratt Symposium
Author: Glenn Clever
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 1977-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0776628372

This work is a result of the fourth symposium in the University of Ottawa Symposia series following those on Canadian writers Grove (1973), Klein (1974), and Lampman (1975). Scholars, friends, and readers gathered on May 1-2, 1976, to discuss "Ned Pratt", otherwise known as E.J. Pratt (1883-1964), the man and the poet. The two day event featured a biographical panel led by Fred Cogswell and various papers intended to establish the literary identity of the distinguished Canadian author. Other contributors include Glenn Clever, Elizabeth Brewster, Ralph Gustafson, Carl F. Klinck, Germaine Warkentin, Peter Stevens, Peter Buitenhuis, Sandra Djwa, Peter Hunt, Agnes Nyland, Robert Gibbs, Louis K. MacKendrick, and Lila Laakso.

Complete Poems

Complete Poems
Author: Edwin John Pratt
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 984
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0802057756

The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen both for their representativeness and for their intrinsic value.

Newfoundland Verse

Newfoundland Verse
Author: E. J. Pratt
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

E.J. Pratt was the premier Canadian poet of the first half of the 20th century. He was an author of 13 volumes of poetry and one of Canada's most prominent literary figures by the 1940s. Newfoundland Verse, published in 1923, was one of his first poetic collections.

E.J. Pratt

E.J. Pratt
Author: Robert G. Collins
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1988
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

Towards the Last Spike

Towards the Last Spike
Author: E. J. Pratt
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 71
Release: 2021-08-30
Genre: Poetry
ISBN:

Towards the Last Spike was written in 1952 by Canadian poet E. J. Pratt. It is a long narrative poem in blank verse about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line in Canada, that of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), from 1871 through 1885. Excerpt: "It was the same world then as now—the same, Except for little differences of speed And power, and means to treat myopia To show an axe-blade infinitely sharp Splitting things infinitely small, or else Provide the telescopic sight to roam Through curved dominions never found in fables. The same, but for new particles of speech..."