Aj pratt - wikipedia
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E. J. Pratt
Canadian poet (1882–1964)
E. J. Pratt CMG FRSC | |
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Pratt in 1944 | |
| Born | Edwin John Dove Pratt (1882-02-04)February 4, 1882 Western Bay, Newfoundland |
| Died | April 26, 1964(1964-04-26) (aged 82) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | British subject |
| Education | Master of Arts |
| Alma mater | Victoria University, Toronto (BA) |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Governor General's Award, FRSC, Lorne Pierce Medal |
| Spouse | Viola Whitney Pratt |
Edwin John Dove PrattCMG 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. 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."[1]
Early life
EJ Pratt was born Edwin John Dove Pratt in Western Bay, Newfoundland, on February 4, 1882. He was brought up in a variety of Newfou
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Edwin John Pratt
Edwin John Dove Pratt (1882–1964) was an academic and a poet. He was born in Western Bay, Newfoundland, the son of Reverend John Pratt and Fanny Pitts Knight. He married Viola Leone Whitney on August 20, 1918 and they had a daughter, Mildred Claire, born on March 18, 1921. He died in Toronto, Ontario on April 26, 1964.
Pratt was educated at St. John’s Methodist College (1888–1901) with a three-year interruption. He received a B.A. in 1911 at Victoria College, University of Toronto, a M.A. at the University of Toronto, and a B.D. at Victoria University, both in 1913. He was ordained as a minister in 1913, and received a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1917.
Pratt was an Assistant Minister at various churches in Streetsville, Ontario (1913–1920). He was Demonstrator-Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Toronto (1913–1920), joined the faculty of the Department of English at Victoria College in 1920, and was promoted to Professor (1930), Senior Professor (1938), and Professor Emeritus (1953). He was appoint
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E. J. Pratt (Edwin John Pratt) Biography
Canadianpoet, born in Newfoundland, educated at the University of Toronto. The son of a Methodist minister, Pratt was also ordained himself, but subsequently pursued an academic career. Although often considered Canada's finest writer of narrative verse of the twentieth century, much of his work is concerned with Victorian conflicts, such as the collapse of faith and humanity's relationship with nature more generally; thus the collision between the ship and the iceberg in The Titanic (1935) exemplifies the limitations of technological ‘progress’. His best-known works, Brébeuf and his Brethren (1940) and Towards the Last Spike (1952), are poems of epic scope with subjects drawn from Canadian history: the former treats the massacre of a group of early French missionaries by the Iroquois and, more generally, the problem of establishing a European culture in Canada; the latter takes the building of the transcontinental railroad, a metaphoric as well as a physical expression of national unity, as its subject. Pratt's
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