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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. Vancouver: Ronsdale Press, 2000.
The E.J. Pratt Library is the main library in the Victoria University Library system, which operates under the wider University of Toronto Libraries system. The collection of approximately 250,000 volumes is geared towards the undergraduate programs at Vic and contains mainly humanities texts with a focus on History, English, Philosophy. [15]
Of the Montreal poets, only Kennedy had previously published a single volume of verse; in contrast, Pratt had been releasing books of poetry for over a decade. "Macmillan Canada had published Pratt’s poetry in the past, and Pratt approached Macmillan’s literary editor Hugh Eayrs on behalf of the New Provinces group" in 1934. [3]
E. J. Pratt (1882–1964), poet, served in Streetsville as an Assistant Minister Carlo Guillermo Proto (born 1979), Chilean-Canadian director Julia Pulo (born 2001), actress and singer
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]
The Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was a Canadian literary award that annually recognized one Canadian writer for a work of poetry or drama published in English. It was one of the Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit from 1937 to 1980 (publication years, which conventionally date the awards).