How Long to Read The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões

How Long Does it Take to Read The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 30 minutes to read The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões by Luís de Camões

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Description

Luís de Camões is world famous as the author of the great Renaissance epic The Lusíads, but his large and equally great body of lyric poetry is still almost completely unknown outside his native Portugal. In The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões, the award-winning translator of The Lusíads gives English readers the first comprehensive collection of Camões's sonnets, songs, elegies, hymns, odes, eclogues, and other poems--more than 280 lyrics altogether, all rendered in engaging verse. Camões (1524-1580) was the first great European artist to cross into the Southern Hemisphere, and his poetry bears the marks of nearly two decades spent in north and east Africa, the Persian Gulf, India, and Macau. From an elegy set in Morocco, to a hymn written at Cape Guardafui on the northern tip of Somalia, to the first modern European love poems for a non-European woman, these lyrics reflect Camões's encounters with radically unfamiliar peoples and places. Translator Landeg White has arranged the poems to follow the order of Camões's travels, making the book read like a journey. The work of one of the first European cosmopolitans, these poems demonstrate that Camões would deserve his place among the great poets even if he had never written his epic.

How long is The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões?

The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões by Luís de Camões is 384 pages long, and a total of 97,536 words.

This makes it 130% the length of the average book. It also has 119% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 52 minutes to read The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões aloud.

What Reading Level is The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões?

The Collected Lyric Poems of Luís de Camões is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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