E.J. Pratt : : The Truant Years 1882–1927 / / David G. Pitt.
E.J. Pratt (1882-1964) is generally recognized as the leading Canadian poet of his generation. Moreover, as Marshall McLuhan observed in 1958, Pratt was, in his personal and social life, 'a one-man creator of a climate for the arts and letters in Canada.'The Truant Years covers the first f...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©1984 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- BOOK I: THE NEWFOUNDLAND PARSON' S SON 1882-1907
- 1. Ancestral Roots
- 2. The Outport World
- 3. Childhood in an Outport Manse
- 4. To the City and Back
- 5. Commerce and College
- 6. Teaching, Preaching, and Peddling
- BOOK II: THE WANDERING SCHOLAR 1907-16
- 7. Undergraduate of Victoria College
- 8. Westward Ho!
- 9. In Search of an Anchorage
- 10. Oasis in the Sahara
- 11. Tangential Steps
- BOOK III: THE YOUNG POET 1916-23
- 12. Stirrings of New Notes
- 13. Matrimony and Other Diversions
- 14. Storming Parnassus
- 15. A Port at Last
- 16. Arcadian Adventures
- 17. Preparations for Launching - on Troubled Seas
- 18. A Viking Raid
- BOOK IV: THE NEW VOICE 1923-7
- 19. Saturnalia Observed
- 20. Of Publishers and Poets
- 21. Shades of Egdon
- 22. An Unsentimental Journey
- 23. Of Whales and Other Leviathans
- 24. Sunlight and Shadows
- 25. A National Event and Heady Wine
- 26. Pleiocene Armageddon and Other Dreams
- 27. Public and Private
- 28. Hymns Devout, Brickbats, and Roses
- Notes and References
- Bibliography
- Index