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E.J. Pratt
The Truant Years 1882–1927
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David G. Pitt
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1984
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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 forty-five years of a full and eventful life.
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Pitt David G. :
David G. Pitt is emeritus professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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'Fascinating as a detective story, impressively researched, written in almost Prattean prose -- the first major biography of a major Canadian poet.'
'David Pitt has written a first-rate narrative. He unobtrusively corrects many apocryphal stories and gives us a clear picture of Pratt's extraordinary range of interests .. He presents both the gentle and genial man and the violent poet. The book is a landmark in Canadian letters.'
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Preface
xi - BOOK I: THE NEWFOUNDLAND PARSON' S SON 1882-1907
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1. Ancestral Roots
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2. The Outport World
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3. Childhood in an Outport Manse
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4. To the City and Back
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5. Commerce and College
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6. Teaching, Preaching, and Peddling
64 - BOOK II: THE WANDERING SCHOLAR 1907-16
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7. Undergraduate of Victoria College
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8. Westward Ho!
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9. In Search of an Anchorage
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10. Oasis in the Sahara
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11. Tangential Steps
144 - BOOK III: THE YOUNG POET 1916-23
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12. Stirrings of New Notes
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13. Matrimony and Other Diversions
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14. Storming Parnassus
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15. A Port at Last
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16. Arcadian Adventures
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17. Preparations for Launching - on Troubled Seas
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18. A Viking Raid
223 - BOOK IV: THE NEW VOICE 1923-7
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19. Saturnalia Observed
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20. Of Publishers and Poets
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21. Shades of Egdon
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22. An Unsentimental Journey
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23. Of Whales and Other Leviathans
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24. Sunlight and Shadows
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25. A National Event and Heady Wine
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26. Pleiocene Armageddon and Other Dreams
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27. Public and Private
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28. Hymns Devout, Brickbats, and Roses
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Notes and References
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Bibliography
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Index
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December 15, 1984
eBook ISBN:
9781487579982
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448
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Audience(s) for this book
College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
