E. J. Pratt (1883–1964)

Autore di Collected Poems

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E. J. Pratt is considered to be the poet who initiated the Canadian modernist movement. Yet, unlike his literary contemporaries, Pratt was attracted to the convention of epic poetry: Brebeuf and His Brethren (1940) and Towards the Last Spike (1952) are impressive examples of this style and are also mostra altro ambitious attempts to forge a national mythology through verse. Edwin John Pratt was born at Western Bay, Newfoundland. As he grew up in this desolate coastal town, Pratt's association with the sea impressed him with an image that would later reverberate throughout his poetry. Although trained as a Methodist minister, Pratt evidently experienced a crisis of faith following his studies in philosophy and psychology at the University of Toronto, where he received a Ph.D. in theology. In 1920, largely because of his promise as a poet, he was given an English professorship at Victoria College, University of Toronto, a post from which he retired in 1953. Pratt's verse is aptly described by E. K. Brown as the "work of an experimenter who is continuing to clutch at a tradition although that tradition is actually stifling him." mostra meno

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Opere di E. J. Pratt

Popolari Recenti

Collected Poems (1945) 19 copie

Brébeuf and His Brethren (1940) 13 copie

Behind the log (1947) 10 copie

Here the tides flow (1962) 7 copie

E.J. Pratt: Complete Poems (Collected Works of E.J. Pratt) (Pt 1 and 2) (1989) 7 copie

Selected Poems of E.J. Pratt (1968) 7 copie

Towards the last spike : a verse-panorama of the struggle to build the first Canadian transcontinental from the time of… (1952) 5 copie

Complete poems : Part 1 4 copie

The witches' brew (1925) 3 copie

Roosevelt and the Antinoe, The 3 copie

The Fable of the Goats, and other poems 3 copie

Heroic Tales in Verse (1941) 3 copie

Ten Selected Poems (1947) 3 copie

Newfoundland Verse (1923) 2 copie

Verses of the sea 2 copie

Poems for upper school : with notes and questions 2 copie

The Iron Door 2 copie

Complete poems : Part 2 2 copie

Titans (1926) 1 copia

Pursuits amateur and academic : the selected prose of E.J. Pratt (1995) 1 copia

The Titanic (1935) 1 copia

Many Moods 1 copia

They are Returning 1 copia

The Shark Sea-Gulls (2009) 1 copia

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Sotto gli alberi (1872) — A cura di, alcune edizioni — 2,236 copie

All Sails Set (1948) — Collaboratore — 8 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Pratt, E. J.
Nome legale: Pratt, Edwin John
Data di nascita: 1883-02-04
Data di morte: 1964-04-26
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: Canada
Luogo di nascita: Western Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
Luogo di morte: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Istruzione: University of Toronto (Victoria College)
Attività lavorative: poet
teacher
Organizzazioni: Canadian Authors Association
Premi e riconoscimenti: Lorne Pierce Medal (1940)

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The Collected Poems of E. J. Pratt, Ed. By Northrop… di E. J. Pratt

It takes guts to write long long long narrative verse in this age. So I am very much admiring Pratt's guts. However, sometimes guts get in the way. By which I mean, in one of his poems a giant whale battles a giant squid to the death, and chews on it's squishy guts. I am not sure how often giant whales and giant squids battle to the death, but somehow I doubt they do it with this much relish.
Also, in Brebeuf and his Brethren, similar relish is taken by Huron and Six Nations people in torture and savagery. I know Pratt was a man of his times, even behind the times. But his depiction of Native people and wildlife seems wildly inaccurate to me.
But man, he sure can hold your attention for pages and pages of blank verse.… (altro)

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