How Long to Read A Shropshire Lad

How Long Does it Take to Read A Shropshire Lad?

It takes the average reader and 57 minutes to read A Shropshire Lad by A E Housman

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 1896, the high point of what has been variously called "the yellow 'nineties" and "the Beardsley period," Victorian poetry was at a low ebb. Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning were both dead; Algernon Charles Swinburne had long since retired to Putney. The Pre-Raphaelite movement had subsided. Thomas Hardy was still known only as a novelist. The minor poets seemed stereotyped into two groups: those who, like Oscar Wilde, produced "Swinburne and water" and those who wrote frail imitations of the French of Paul Verlaine. The only new and original talent was that of Rudyard Kipling, who had already published his two most famous volumes. Yet despite Kipling's vigor, the spirit of the age was best represented by The Yellow Book and Aubrey Beardsley's illustrations for Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (1712). It was in this atmosphere of "purple patches and fine phrases" that there appeared A Shropshire Lad, a slender volume containing sixty-three short poems-some only eight lines long-written by the Professor of Latin at University College, London.

How long is A Shropshire Lad?

A Shropshire Lad by A E Housman is 56 pages long, and a total of 14,336 words.

This makes it 19% the length of the average book. It also has 18% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read A Shropshire Lad Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 18 minutes to read A Shropshire Lad aloud.

What Reading Level is A Shropshire Lad?

A Shropshire Lad is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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