It takes the average reader 2 hours and 58 minutes to read Ritsos in Parentheses by Yannis Ritsos
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Perhaps Greece's most important poet, Yannis Ritsos follows such eminent predecessors as Cavafy, Sikelianos, and Seferis in the dramatic and symbolic expression of a tragic sense of life. The three volumes of Ritsos's poetry translated here--Parentheses, 1946-47, Parentheses, 1950-61, and The Distant, 1975--represent a thirty year poetic journey and a developing sensibility that link the poet's subtler perceptions at different moments of his maturity. In his introduction to the poems, and as an explanation of the book's title, Edmund Keeley writes: "The two signs of the parenthesis are like...
Ritsos in Parentheses by Yannis Ritsos is 175 pages long, and a total of 44,625 words.
This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Ritsos in Parentheses aloud.
Ritsos in Parentheses is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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