Newstead Abbey of one Who possessed Beauty Without Vanity, Strength without Insolence, Courage without Ferosity, And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices. This Praise, which would be unmeaning flattery If inscribed over Human Ashes, Is but a just tribute to the Memory of "Boatswain," a Dog Who was born at Newfoundland, May, 1803, And died at Newstead Abbey<br> Nov. 18, 1808. Byron had wanted to be buried with Boatswain, although he would ultimately be buried in the family vault at the nearby church in Hucknall. He was determined to stay at Newstead—"Newstead and I stand or fall together"—and he hoped
Newfoundland and Labrador late-Romantic lyrical sensibility. The collection has humorous and sympathetic portraits of Newfoundland characters, and creates an elegiac mood in poems concerning sea tragedies or Great War losses. With illustrations by Group of Seven member Frederick Varley, "Newfoundland Verse" proved to be Pratt's "breakthrough collection." He went on to publish 18 more books of poetry in his lifetime. "Recognition came with the narrative poems "The Witches’ Brew" (1925), "Titans" (1926), and "The Roosevelt and the Antinoe" (1930), and though he published a substantial body of lyric verse, it is as a narrative poet that Pratt is remembered." Pratt's poetry "frequently reflects