Background
Pratt, John Clark was born on August 19, 1932 in St. Albans, Vermont, United States. Son of John Lowell and Katharine (Jennison) Pratt.
(in duiscussing poems of some twenty poets - including Yea...)
in duiscussing poems of some twenty poets - including Yeats, Thomas, Hardy, Hopkins, Ferlinghetti, Cummings, and Frost - author tells what to look for in a poem to understand it more readily.
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Pratt, John Clark was born on August 19, 1932 in St. Albans, Vermont, United States. Son of John Lowell and Katharine (Jennison) Pratt.
Student, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1953. Bachelor, University California, Berkeley, 1954. Master of Arts with honors, Columbia University, 1960.
Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1965.
Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, United States Air Force, 1955; advanced through grades lieutenant colonel, United States Air Force, 1971; retired, United States Air Force, 1974; instructor to Professor of English, United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado, 1960-1974; chairman English department, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1974-1980; Professor of English, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, since 1974; president, Pratt Public Company, Fort Collins, since 1988. Fulbright lecturer CIES/Washington, Portugal, 1974-1975, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, 1980. Honors professor Colorado State University, Fort Collins, 1989.
(in duiscussing poems of some twenty poets - including Yea...)
Member of Vietnam Veterans Association, Northern Colorado Veterans Plz. Committee, Northern Colorado Military Officers Association (vice president), Northern Colorado Traditional Jazz Society (president), Rotary Clubo Downtown Fort Collins.
Married Dolores Barghausen, January 27, 1955 (divorced February 1968). Children: Karen, Sandra, Pamela, John. Married Doreen Kleerup Goodman, June 28, 1968.
Stepchildren: Lynn, Christine.