E. J. Pratt : Complete Poems.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- PART 1 -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES ON THE TEXT -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- BIOGRAPHICAL CHRONOLOGY -- A Poem on the May Examinations -- The Wind of the West -- The Secret of the Sea -- Unseen Allies -- Evening -- The Sacrifice of Youth -- Dead on the Field of Honour -- The Seed Must Die -- The Greater Sacrifice -- For Valour -- The Great Mother -- The Sea-Shell -- Rachel: A Sea Story of Newfoundland in Verse -- The Largess of 1917 -- Dawn -- The Dear Illusion -- Invocation -- The Wooden Cross -- October, 1918 -- Amerongen -- The Hidden Scar -- In Memoriam -- Overheard by a Stream -- 'Blow! Winds, and Roar!' -- Signals -- Carlo -- In Absentia -- The Flood-Tide -- The Pine Tree -- Sea Variations -- The Ice-Floes -- The Ground Swell -- The History of John Jones -- A Student's Prayer at an Examination -- In Lantern Light -- The Shark -- The Decision -- The Toll of the Bells -- Magnolia Blossoms -- The Fog -- The Big Fellow -- The Morning Plunge -- Loss of the Steamship Florizel -- The Drowning -- Overheard in a Cove -- The Passing of Jerry Moore -- The Bird of Paradise -- The Epigrapher -- Ode to December, 1917 -- Newfoundland -- A Coast -- Morning -- Great Tides -- The After-Calm -- Scenes from Afar -- A Dirge -- Come Not the Seasons Here -- On the Shore -- Before a Bulletin Board -- Before an Altar -- Snowfall on a Battlefield -- In a Beloved Home -- Fragment from a Story -- Comrades -- The Frost Over-Night -- The Lie -- One Hour of Life -- The Last Survivor -- The Drag-Irons -- Tokens -- The Ritual -- To an Enemy -- The Witches' Brew -- The Cachalot -- Tatterhead -- The Sea-Cathedral -- The Great Feud -- Cherries -- The Lee-Shore -- The Iron Door: An Ode -- An Awakening -- Old Age -- A Prairie Sunset -- The Convict Holocaust -- Whither? -- The Lost Cause -- Blind -- Sea-Gulls -- The Child and the Wren.

The Roosevelt and the Antinoe -- To Angelina, an Old Nurse -- The Fugitive -- Doors -- For Better or Worse -- Time-Worn -- Erosion -- At a Sanitarium -- Water -- Dreams -- The Highway -- The Armistice Silence -- The 6000 -- From Stone to Steel -- The Depression Ends -- Putting Winter to Bed -- A Reverie on a Dog -- Bereft -- The Man and the Machine -- The Mirage -- The Way of Cape Race -- Out of Step -- A Puzzle Picture -- The Parable of Puffsky -- A Legacy -- A Feline Silhouette -- Frost -- A November Landscape -- Magic -- Horizons -- Jock o' the Links -- The Pursuit -- The Empty Room -- Like Mother, Like Daughter -- A Prayer-Medley -- The Text of the Oath -- To Any Astronomer -- The Mystic -- The Seer -- Fire -- The Prize Cat -- The Weather Glass -- The Titanic -- TEXTUAL VARIANTS AND EMENDATIONS -- ANNOTATIONS -- INDEX OF FIRST LINES -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- INDEX OF TITLES IN PARTS 1 AND 2 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- PART 2 -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Silences -- Seen on the Road -- The Baritone -- Puck Reports Back -- The Fable of the Goats -- Under the Lens -- The Old Organon (1225 A.D.) -- The New [Organon] (1937 A.D.) -- The Illusion -- The Impatient Earth -- The Submarine -- The Anomaly -- The Stag -- Old Harry -- The Dying Eagle -- The Radio in the Ivory Tower -- Fire-Worship -- Dunkirk -- Brébeuf and His Brethren -- The Invaded Field -- Come Away, Death -- Dunkirk -- Heydrich -- The Truant -- The Stoics -- Father Time -- Autopsy on a Sadist -- Niemoeller -- Der Fuehrer's Pot-Pourri -- Still Life -- Missing: Believed Dead: Returned -- The Brawler in Who's Who -- They Are Returning -- Behind the Log -- Summit Meetings -- Newfoundland Calling -- Newfoundland Seamen -- The Last Watch.

Displaced -- Blind from Singapore -- A Call -- The Good Earth -- Myth and Fact -- Cycles -- The Deed -- Magic in Everything -- Towards the Last Spike -- The Unromantic Moon -- TEXTUAL VARIANTS AND EMENDATIONS -- ANNOTATIONS -- APPENDIX A: MISCELLANEOUS POEMS -- That Night There Came to Bethlehem -- January the First -- Thanksgiving -- Mother and Child -- The Manger Under the Star -- The Nativity -- Lines on the Occasion of Her Majesty's Visit to Canada, 1959 -- To G.B.S -- The Doctor in the Boat -- To D.H. Lawrence -- But Mary Kept All These Things, and Pondered Them in Her Heart -- The Head of the Firm -- APPENDIX B: UNPUBLISHED DRAMA -- Clay -- APPENDIX C: UNPUBLISHED POETRY -- To Pelham Edgar -- A Breadliner's Prayer -- A Strip of Sea Coast -- But One Way -- [Today and Yesterday] -- 'First Born of England' -- Moonlight -- The Fisher Boy -- [The Toucan] -- (To Cornie) -- The Inexpressible -- The Yeas and the Nays -- His Last Voyage -- The Osprey -- St John's, Newfoundland: Steep Are Thy Cliffs -- DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF FIRST LINES -- A -- B -- C -- F -- G -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- W -- INDEX OF TITLES IN PARTS 1 AND 2 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y.

The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen both for their representativeness and for their intrinsic value.

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