How Long to Read Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light

How Long Does it Take to Read Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light by Alec Marsh

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

Description

The instalments of Ezra Pound's life-project, The Cantos, composed during his incarceration in Washington after the Second World War were to have served as a "Paradiso" for his epic. Beautiful and tormented, enigmatic and irascible by turns, they express the poet's struggle to reconcile his striving for justice with his extreme Right politics. In heavily coded language, Pound was writing activist political poetry. Through an in-depth reading of the "Washington Cantos" this book reveals the ways in which Pound integrated into his verse themes and ideas that remain central to American far-right...

How long is Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light?

Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light by Alec Marsh is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light aloud.

What Reading Level is Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light?

Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the Struggle for Light is suitable for students ages 12 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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