E.J. Pratt: Selected Poems

This volume of E.J. Pratt's selected poems introduces Pratt's poems to the college and university student, to provide the kind of information needed for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen on the joint basis of representativeness and intrinsic value. This includes the major long poems, The Witches' Brew, The Iron Door, The Titanic, Br beuf and His Brethren, Towards the Last Spike, and important shorter lyrics including 'Newfoundland, ' 'Come Away, Death, ' and 'From Stone to Steel.'

The editorial approach has been historical, chronological and biographical. The introduction locates Pratt in his Newfoundland and Canadian contexts and discusses the development of his work in terms of his early modernist contemporaries, concluding that E.J. Pratt remains the most important and influential Canadian poet up to the mid-fifties. As such, he has been an key figure in shaping the Canadian literary imagination of his day and the later poetics of landscape adopted by Earle Birney and Margaret Atwood.

The reader is provided with annotations, textual notes, a biographical chronology, and an introduction which locates Pratt in his Newfoundland and Canadian contexts and discusses the development of his work in terms of his modernist contemporaries. The printed volumes is supplemented by the electronic resources of the Selected Pratt website at http: //www.trentu.ca/pratt/selected.

Author: Sandra Djwa
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 08/01/2000
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780802081551

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2001 pg. 1083

About the Author
Djwa, Sandra: - Sandra Djwa is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia.Keith, W. J.: - W.J. Keith is a retired professor of English at the University of Toronto.Pollock, Zailig: - Zailig Pollock is Professor of English Literature, Trent University.

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