Edwin john pratt biography


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Edwin John Pratt

Edwin John Dove Pratt (1882–1964) was an academic and a poet.

Edwin john pratt biography

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    • He was born in Western Bay, Newfoundland, the son of Reverend John Pratt and Fanny Pitts Knight. He married Viola Leone Whitney on August 20, 1918 and they had a daughter, Mildred Claire, born on March 18, 1921. He died in Toronto, Ontario on April 26, 1964.

    Pratt was educated at St.

    John’s Methodist College (1888–1901) with a three-year interruption. He received a B.A. in 1911 at Victoria College, University of Toronto, a M.A. at the University of Toronto, and a B.D. at Victoria University, both in 1913.

    Governor general’s award for the fable of the goats and other poems(1937)

    He was ordained as a minister in 1913, and received a Ph.D. at the University of Toronto in 1917.

    Pratt was an Assistant Minister at various churches in Streetsville, Ontario (1913–1920). He was Demonstrator-Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Toronto (1913–1920), joined the faculty of the Department of English at Victoria College in 1920, and was