It takes the average reader 2 hours and 26 minutes to read My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
With exacting rigor and wit, Howe pulls Dickinson free of all the sterile and stuffy belle-of-Amherst cotton wool and shows the poet in touch with elemental forces of nature, and as a prophet in all her radical zealotry and poetic glory. Her Emily Dickinson is a unique American genius, a demon lover of poetry—no neurasthenic spider artist. Howe draws into her discussion Browning, Wuthering Heights, the Civil War, "Master," the great Puritan preachers, captivity narratives, Shakespeare, and phantom lovers. As she chases away narrow and reductive feminist readings of the poet, Howe finds...
My Emily Dickinson by Susan Howe is 144 pages long, and a total of 36,576 words.
This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 45% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 19 minutes to read My Emily Dickinson aloud.
My Emily Dickinson is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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