β Scribed by E.J. Pratt (editor); Sandra Djwa (editor); W.J. Keith (editor); Zailig Pollock (editor)
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Selected Poems offers a full sampling of Pratt?s poems chosen on the joint basis of representative poetic voice and intrinsic value. The poems are based on a new edition of the texts based on a collation of all published versions.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Editorsβ Introduction
Biographical Chronology
Poems
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
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