{"product_id":"9780802081551","title":"Selected Poems: E.J. Pratt","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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, \u003cem\u003eThe Witches' Brew\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Iron Door\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Titanic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrébeuf\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eand His Brethren\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTowards the Last Spike\u003c\/em\u003e, and important shorter lyrics including 'Newfoundland,' 'Come Away, Death,' and 'From Stone to Steel.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 \u003cem\u003eSelected Pratt\u003c\/em\u003e website at http:\/\/www.trentu.ca\/pratt\/selected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47021110919408,"sku":"9780802081551","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802081551_p0.jpg?v=1769907020","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802081551","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}