How Long to Read Joyce: Poems and a Play

How Long Does it Take to Read Joyce: Poems and a Play?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 1 minute to read Joyce: Poems and a Play by James Joyce

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

Description

This selection of the major poems James Joyce published in his lifetime is accompanied by his only surviving play, Exiles. Joyce is most celebrated for his remarkable novel Ulysses, and yet he was also a highly accomplished poet. Chamber Music is his debut collection of lyrical love poems, which he intended to be set to music; in it, he enlivens the styles of the Celtic Revival with his own brand of playful irony. Pomes Penyeach, a collection written while Joyce was working on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, sounds intimately autobiographical notes of passion and betrayal that would go on to resonate throughout the rest of his work. Joyce’s other poems include the moving “Ecce Puer,” written on the occasion of the birth of his grandson, and his fiery satires “The Holy Office” and “Gas from a Burner.” Exiles was written after Joyce had left Ireland, never to return; it is a richly nuanced drama that reflects a grappling with the state of his own marriage and career as he was about to embark on the writing of Ulysses. In its tale of an unconventional couple involved in a love triangle, Exiles engages Joycean themes of envy and jealousy, freedom and love, men and women, and the complicated relationship between an artist and his homeland.

How long is Joyce: Poems and a Play?

Joyce: Poems and a Play by James Joyce is 241 pages long, and a total of 60,491 words.

This makes it 81% the length of the average book. It also has 74% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Joyce: Poems and a Play Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Joyce: Poems and a Play aloud.

What Reading Level is Joyce: Poems and a Play?

Joyce: Poems and a Play 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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