E. J. Pratt

Edwin John Pratt (1882-1964), born at Western Bay on the coast of Newfoundland, the son of a Methodist minister, taught and preached on the island before leaving to study in Toronto, where he taught psychology at the university from 1913 to 1920 and in 1917 defended a doctorate on Saint Paul. Professor of English at Victoria College from 1920 to 1953 and founder of a poetry magazine, crowned in 1937 and again in 1952 for two other books, he was regarded in his lifetime as the foremost poet of English Canada. He died in Toronto.

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• PoetryBrébeuf and His BrethrenE. J. Pratt · 1940Literature