How Long to Read On Not Defending Poetry

How Long Does it Take to Read On Not Defending Poetry?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 20 minutes to read On Not Defending Poetry by Catherine Bates

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

Description

Sidney's Defence of Poesy—the foundational text of English poetics—is generally taken to present a model of poetry as ideal: the poet depicts ideals of human conduct and readers are inspired to imitate them. Catherine Bates sets out to challenge this received view. Attending very closely to Sidney's text, she identifies within it a model of poetry that is markedly at variance from the one presumed, and shows Sidney's text to be feeling its way toward a quite different—indeed, a de-idealist—poetics. Following key theorists of the new economic criticism, On Not Defending Poetry shows how...

How long is On Not Defending Poetry?

On Not Defending Poetry by Catherine Bates is 320 pages long, and a total of 80,000 words.

This makes it 108% the length of the average book. It also has 98% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read On Not Defending Poetry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 17 minutes to read On Not Defending Poetry aloud.

What Reading Level is On Not Defending Poetry?

On Not Defending Poetry is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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