This Volume Of E.J. PRATT"s Selected Poems Introduces PRATT"s Poems To the college and university student, providing the kind of information needed an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt"s poems chosen on the joint basis of representativeness and intrinsic value. Included here are the major long poems, The Witches" Brew, The Iron Door, The Titanic, Brebeuf and His Brethren, Towards the Last Spike, and important shorter lyrics such as "Newfoundland, " "Come Away, Death, and "From Stone to Steel."The editorial approach is historical, chronological, and biographical. The introduction locates E.J. Pratt in his Newfoundland and Canadian contexts and discusses the development of his work in terms of his early modernist contemporaries, concluding that Pratt remains the most important and influential Canadian poet up to the mid-fifties. As such, he has been a key figure in shaping the Canadian literary imagination of his day and the later poetics of landscape adopted by Earle Birney and Margaret Atwood.