{"product_id":"e-j-pratt-selected-poems-paperback","title":"E.J. Pratt: Selected Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eE. J. Pratt\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSandra Djwa\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eW. J. Keith\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Witches' Brew\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Iron Door\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Titanic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrébeuf and His Brethren\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTowards the Last Spike\u003c\/em\u003e, and important shorter lyrics including 'Newfoundland, ' 'Come Away, Death, ' and 'From Stone to Steel.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eSelected Pratt\u003c\/em\u003e website at http: \/\/www.trentu.ca\/pratt\/selected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eE.J. Pratt\u003c\/b\u003e (1882-1964) was a Canadian poet. He taught English literature at Victoria College until his retirement in 1953. A three-time winner of the country's Governor General's Award for poetry, he has been called \"the foremost Canadian poet of the first half of the century.\" \u003cb\u003eSandra Djwa\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. \u003cstrong\u003eWilliam J. Keith\u003c\/strong\u003e, who was born and brought up in England, is Professor Emeritus of English at University College, University of Toronto. His is the author of Richard Jefferies: A Critical Study and Charles G.D. Roberts, and has edited Charles G.D. Roberts: Selected Poetry and Critical Prose. \u003cb\u003eZailig Pollock\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English Literature, Trent University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 07, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53457745903923,"sku":"9780802081551","price":85.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/EnisfBBVpz9780802081551.webp?v=1781271555","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/e-j-pratt-selected-poems-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}