How Long to Read Portraits From Life

How Long Does it Take to Read Portraits From Life?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 46 minutes to read Portraits From Life by George Franklin

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

Description

In this revelatory book, poet George Franklin describes his encounters with illustrious figures in the arts who taught, mentored, or inspired him, and provides extended commentaries on some of their most characteristic creations. Equal parts memoir and critical study, it illuminates the lives and works of artists he came to admire and in some cases to revere, in the process tracing the ways they informed his own sense of vocation as a writer. His relationships with the great modern dancer and choreographer Erick Hawkins and the trailblazing composer Lucia Dlugoszewski prove as nourishing and illuminating to him as his interactions with such literary luminaries as Elizabeth Bishop, William Maxwell, Robert Lowell, Marie Ponsot, and Robert Fitzgerald. Franklin writes in his preface to this volume: "From all of these artists, I have learned of the importance of attending to that which even the most well-chosen, resonant words, the most expressive, exorbitant, and skillfully executed physical gestures, the most beguiling, enthralling, or overwhelming arrangements of notes, can never quite express, but which it is the burden and joy of the artist, nevertheless, to try to express." Anyone interested in the arts, either as practitioner or as enthusiast, will find here much to delight, intrigue, and inspire.

How long is Portraits From Life?

Portraits From Life by George Franklin is 164 pages long, and a total of 41,656 words.

This makes it 55% the length of the average book. It also has 51% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Portraits From Life Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 47 minutes to read Portraits From Life aloud.

What Reading Level is Portraits From Life?

Portraits From Life is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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