How Long to Read Selected Poetry

How Long Does it Take to Read Selected Poetry?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 30 minutes to read Selected Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid

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

Description

Hugh MacDiarmid's Selected Poetry is an invaluable introduction to the work of a major poet who, despite the enthusiasm of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, remains little known in the United States. MacDiarmid (1892-1978), universally recognized as the greatest Scottish poet since Robert Burns and the man responsible for reviving Scots as a literary language, was also the author of an enormous body of poems in English. As the noted critic and translator Eliot Weinberger writes of MacDiarmid's work in his introduction: "There is nothing like it in modern literature, nothing even close. It is an attempt to return poetry to its original role as repository for all that a culture knows about itself." Edited by Alan Riach and the poet's son Michael Grieve, the Selected Poetry draws generously from fifty years of work, and includes the complete text of MacDiarmid's 1926 masterpiece, "A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle."

How long is Selected Poetry?

Selected Poetry by Hugh MacDiarmid is 330 pages long, and a total of 82,500 words.

This makes it 111% the length of the average book. It also has 101% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Selected Poetry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 30 minutes to read Selected Poetry aloud.

What Reading Level is Selected Poetry?

Selected Poetry is suitable for students ages 12 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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