It takes the average reader 4 hours and 22 minutes to read New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
This volume contains a selection of work from each of Seamus Heaney's published books of poetry up to and including the Whitbread prize-winning collection, The Haw Lantern (1987). 'His is 'close-up' poetry - close up to thought, to the world, to the emotions. Few writers at work today, in verse or fiction, can give the sense of rich, fecund, lived life that Heaney does.' John Banville 'More than any other poet since Wordsworth he can make us understand that the outside world is not outside, but what we are made of.' John Carey
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 by Seamus Heaney is 256 pages long, and a total of 65,536 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 80% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 58 minutes to read New Selected Poems 1966-1987 aloud.
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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