Innate within Western Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, Pratt grew up withinside the kind of Newfoundland communities in Newfoundland, when his Methodist minister father was posted to various communities around a colony. Pratt himself was likewise ordained as a Methodist minister, however never served in the church.

Pratt exposed psychology at the University of Toronto, & taught psychological science and English literature at Victoria College until 1953.

His 1st promulgated operate as a poet appeared inside 1914, however his number 1 memorable collection was 1923's Newfoundland Verse. Pratt finally became a first American poet of the early twentieth century, winning Governor General's Awards in 1937, 1940 and 1952. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1930, was awarded the Society's Lorne Pierce Medal in 1940, and was editor of Canadian Poetry Magazine from 1936 to 1943.

Pratt's function typically drew from either American & Newfoundland history.

Bibliography

Rachel: the sea story of Newfoundland within verse, 1917 Newfoundland Verse, 1923 ''A Witches' Brew, 1925 Titans, 1926 A Cast-iron Door: An Ode, 1927 A Roosevelt & a Antinoe, 1930 Verses of the Sea, 1930 Several Moods, 1932 A Titanic, 1935 A Fable of the Goats & More Verse form, 1937 Brebeuf & his Brethren, 1940 Dunkirk, 1941 However Life & More Verse, 1943 It is Giving, 1945 Gathered Verse form of E. J. Pratt, 1946 Behind a Log, 1947 Ten Selected Verse form, 1947 Towards a Survive Spike, 1952 Gathered Verse form of E. J. Pratt (expanded edition), 1958 On this text a Tides Flow, 1962 Selected Verse form of E. J. Pratt, 1968 Heroic Tales within Verse, 1977 E. J. Pratt: Complete Poems'' (2 volumes), 1989