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Selected Pomes

Selected Pomes

Selected Pomes
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Selected Pomes Paperback - 2000 - 1st Edition

by E.J.Pratt

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Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000. Book. Good. Paperback. Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 240pp. A lovely sound , clean copy throughout..
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  • Title Selected Pomes
  • Author E.J.Pratt
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Toronto Press, Toronto
  • Publication date 2000
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 11055
  • ISBN 9780802081551 / 080208155X
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.62 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 1.57 cm)
  • Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects Canada
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001280486
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.52
  • Bookseller catalogues Poetry and Poets

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Reader reviews for Selected Pomes

From the publisher

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, Brbeuf 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.

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2001, Page 1083

About the author

E.J. Pratt (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." Sandra Djwa is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia. William J. Keith, 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. Zailig Pollock is Professor of English Literature, Trent University.
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