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Edwin John Dove Pratt CMG FRSC (February 4, 1882 – April 26, 1964), [1] who published as E. J. Pratt, was a Canadian poet. [2] Originally from Newfoundland , Pratt lived most of his life in Toronto , Ontario .
Above all, Pratt is a poet unusually aware of the traditional connection between poetry and oratory." He concluded: "The faults of the poem are obvious and commonplace; its virtues are subtle and remarkable." [5] Frye later wrote that Pratt had "expressed in Towards the Last Spike the central comic theme ... of the Canadian imagination." [6]
Sandra Djwa, W.J. Keith, and Zailig Pollock, eds. Selected Poems of E. J. Pratt, with an introduction by Sandra Djwa. Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Monograph: Professing English at UBC: The Legacy of Roy Daniells and Garnett Sedgewick. The 1999 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture.
Jennifer Anne Ehle (/ ˈ iː l i /; born December 29, 1969) [3] is an American actress. She gained recognition and acclaim for her role as Elizabeth Bennet in the BBC miniseries Pride and Prejudice (1995), for which she received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actress.
Pratt was born in Toronto, Ontario on March 18, 1921, the only daughter of Viola Whitney, an editor of the magazine World Friends, and poet E. J. Pratt. [1] Pratt contracted polio at the age of 4 and later developed osteomyelitis, an inflammatory disease of the bone. This affected her for most of her life. [2] [3]
Born in Highland, New York, the son of George Washington Pratt (1840-1931) and Mary Adelaide Harcourt Pratt (1845-1909). His father served as the town of Lloyd's supervisor in 1872 and 1874. His mother was the daughter of Mathew and Sarah (Deyo) Harcourt, and through his mother he was a descendant of New Paltz patentees (founders) Christian ...
Richard J. Pratt (born Ryszard Przecicki; 10 December 1934 – 28 April 2009 [1] [2]) was an Australian businessman, chairman of the privately owned company Visy Industries, and a leading figure of Melbourne society. In the year before his death, Pratt was Australia's fourth-richest person, with a personal fortune valued at A$5.48 billion. [3]
The initials E. J. are used by several noted people. This is often an abbreviation for their first and middle names, but can also be used when their first name starts with E, and the 'J' stands for Junior suffix (as in E. J. Junior), or can even be the legal first name. As it is often an abbreviation, it has no actual meaning.