High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edwin John Dove Pratt, FRSC (February 4, 1882 – April 26, 1964), who published as E. J. Pratt, was "the leading Canadian poet of his time." He was a Canadian poet originally from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario. A three-time winner of the country`s Governor General`s Award for poetry, he has been called "the foremost Canadian poet of the first half of the century."