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100 1 $aPratt, E. J.$q(Edwin John),$d1882-1964.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50021576
245 10 $aPursuits amateur and academic :$bthe selected prose of E.J. Pratt /$cedited by Susan Gingell.
260 $aToronto :$bUniversity of Toronto Press,$c1995.
263 $a9501
300 $axxxvii, 373 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
490 1 $aThe collected works of E.J. Pratt
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aA. Pratt as Story-Teller -- B. Pratt as Theologian: Thesis Extracts -- C. Pratt as Essayist -- D. Pratt as Commentator: The Canadian Comment Columns -- E. Pratt as Editor: The Canadian Poetry Magazine Editorials -- F. Pratt as Reviewer -- G. Pratt as Prefacer: Forewords and Introductions -- H. Pratt as Teacher: The Lectures and Addresses.
520 $aPoetry is the foundation of E.J. Pratt's eminence in Canadian literary history, yet there exists a significant body of his work which has not been widely available until now. Pratt was a prolific writer of prose and an important commentator on the literature and life of his day.
520 8 $aPratt had a varied career as a theological student, psychology scholar, and professor of English. As editor of Canadian Poetry he fostered poets like Earle Birney and Dorothy Livesay, and the editorials he wrote while at the helm of the magazine are important documents of Canadian literary history. His prose records both his dislike of modernism's 'obscurantist excesses' and his sympathy with its anti-romanticism.
520 8 $aIn his writing he was equally impatient with naive optimism and unrelieved pessimism, seeking a mean when he argued that 'messages of hope and faith need to be run through the bulletins of realism.'.
520 8 $aIn Pursuits Amateur and Academic Susan Gingell has gathered together stories, essays, editorials, reviews, prefaces, introductions, and lectures, some of them previously unpublished. This volume not only enhances our understanding of Pratt's poetry, but gives us considerable insight into both the rich dimensions of Pratt's life outside poetry and the cultural and intellectual life of his times.
700 1 $aGingell, Susan,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85077644
800 1 $aPratt, E. J.$q(Edwin John),$d1882-1964.$tWorks.
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