It takes the average reader 2 hours and 20 minutes to read My Voice Because of You by Pedro Salinas
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The Spanish poet Pedro Salinas is a member of that group of brilliant and original poets called the Generation of 27, a group which includes Rafael Alberti, Jorge Guillén, Luis Cernuda, Vincente Aleixandre, and Frederico García Lorca. First published as La voz a ti debida in Madrid in 1933, Salinas sequence of seventy poems is his most famous work, and is thought by many to be the best book of love poetry written in this century. Willis Barnstones translation makes it available as a whole for the first time in English. As part of Spains vanguard movement, Salinas believed in reviving elements from earlier eras, as is demonstrated by a title such as Razón de amor (from the medieval Sermon of Love), as well as Largo Lamento and La voz a ti debida (from the Renaissance poet Garcilaso de la Vega). Salinas shows a natural affinity with the intricate objectivity of the baroque poet Góngora, and continues the Spanish mystical tradition while reaching the metaphysical through human love. And though he learned much from earlier eras, he is also very much of this century, as is seen in his imagery of typewriters, telephones, and car radiators, all deftly handled through a variety of poetic moods. In fact, few modern poets have so discerningly employed the external data of our experience as transformed though the emotions and imagination. For Salinas Telegraph wires carry kisses. He is by turns playful, ironic, sentimental, and despairing, leading us through loves sense of amazement, humor, tragedy. Salinas confessional persona speaks with extraordinary power, and the poems operate both individually and cumulatively. Willis Barnstones translation captures the changing tones of the poets internal journey, giving us a deep sense of the variety and poignancy found in the original. My Voice Because of You has been accepted in UNESCOs series of translations of European literature.
My Voice Because of You by Pedro Salinas is 140 pages long, and a total of 35,000 words.
This makes it 47% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 11 minutes to read My Voice Because of You aloud.
My Voice Because of You is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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