It takes the average reader 2 hours and 40 minutes to read Pound's Cantos Declassified by Philip Furia
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By using his Cantos for storing, "making new," and transmitting historical documents, Pound was returning the epic to its ancient function as a tribal archive for the "luminous details" of history that define a culture's past and shape its future. So argues this book, which does not overlook the poem's brilliant lyrical passages but for the first time focuses on those vast stretches of Pound's epic composed not of literary touchstones but of that most unpoetic of literary forms, historical documents. Pound's task as epic poet was complicated by the fact that the documents he wished to renew...
Pound's Cantos Declassified by Philip Furia is 160 pages long, and a total of 40,000 words.
This makes it 54% the length of the average book. It also has 49% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 38 minutes to read Pound's Cantos Declassified aloud.
Pound's Cantos Declassified is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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