How Long to Read Poet of the Medieval Modern

How Long Does it Take to Read Poet of the Medieval Modern?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 52 minutes to read Poet of the Medieval Modern by Francesca Brooks

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

Description

The early Middle Ages provided twentieth-century poets with the material to re-imagine and rework local, religious, and national identities in their writing. Poet of the Medieval Modern focuses on a key figure within this tradition, the Anglo-Welsh poet and artist David Jones (1895-1974): representing the first extended study of the influence of early medieval English culture and history on Jones and his novel-length late modernist poem The Anathemata (1952). Jones's second major poetic project after In Parenthesis (1937), The Anathemata fuses Jones's visual and verbal arts to write a Catholic history of Britain as told through the history of man-as-artist. Drawing on unpublished archival material including manuscripts, sketches, correspondence, and, most significantly, the marginalia from David Jones's Library, this volume reads with Jones in order to trouble the distinction between poetry and scholarship. Placing this underappreciated figure firmly at the centre of new developments in Modernist and Medieval Studies, Poet of the Medieval Modern brings the two fields into dialogue and argues that Jones uses the textual and material culture of the early Middle Ages--including Old English prose and poetry, Anglo-Latin hagiography, early medieval stone sculpture, manuscripts, and historiography--to re-envision British Catholic identity in the twentieth-century long poem. Jones returned to the English record to seek out those moments where the histories of the Welsh had been elided or erased. At a time when the Middle Ages are increasingly weaponised in far-right and nationalist political discourse, the book offers a timely discussion of how the early medieval past has been resourced to both shore-up and challenge English hegemonies across modern British culture.

How long is Poet of the Medieval Modern?

Poet of the Medieval Modern by Francesca Brooks is 351 pages long, and a total of 88,101 words.

This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 108% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Poet of the Medieval Modern Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 1 minute to read Poet of the Medieval Modern aloud.

What Reading Level is Poet of the Medieval Modern?

Poet of the Medieval Modern is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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