How Long to Read Opium and the Romantic Imagination

How Long Does it Take to Read Opium and the Romantic Imagination?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 46 minutes to read Opium and the Romantic Imagination by Alethea Hayter

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

Description

Does the habit of taking drugs make authors write better, or worse, or differently? Does it alter the quality of their consciousness, shape their imagery, influence their technique? For the Romantic writers of the nineteenth century, many of whom experimented with opium and some of whom were addicted to it, this was an important question, but it has never been fully answered. In this study Alethea Hayter examines the work of five writers - Crabbe, Coleridge, De Quincey, Wilkie Collins and Francis Thompson - who were opium addicts for many years, and of several other writers - notably Keats, Edgar Allan Poe and Baudelaire, but also Walter Scott, Dickens, Mrs Browning, James Thomson and others - who are known to have taken opium at times. The work of these writers is discussed in the context of nineteenth-century opinion about the uses and dangers of opium, and of Romantic ideas on the creative imagination, on dreams and hypnagogic visions, and on imagery, so that the idiosyncrasies of opium-influenced writing can be isolated from their general literary background. The examination reveals a strange and miserable region of the mind in which some of the greatest poetic imaginations of the nineteenth century were imprisoned.

How long is Opium and the Romantic Imagination?

Opium and the Romantic Imagination by Alethea Hayter is 278 pages long, and a total of 71,724 words.

This makes it 94% the length of the average book. It also has 88% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Opium and the Romantic Imagination Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 31 minutes to read Opium and the Romantic Imagination aloud.

What Reading Level is Opium and the Romantic Imagination?

Opium and the Romantic Imagination is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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