E.J. Pratt : The Truant Years 1882-1927 /

Mostrar otras versiones (2)

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...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pitt, David G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Heritage
Temas:
Poets, Canadian > 20th century > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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

Ejemplares similares