CA-K506Culture & sport
E. J. Pratt, poet from Newfoundland
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E. J. Pratt, born at Western Bay, Newfoundland, taught and briefly served as a Methodist minister before spending his career at Victoria College in Toronto. By the 1930s he was a prominent Canadian poet, writing on grand themes such as evolution and human struggle against nature, with images of sea and rock that echo his Newfoundland roots.
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Pratt as described in his designation.
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E. J. Pratt National Historic Person ↗
Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
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