How Long to Read The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins

How Long Does it Take to Read The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins?

It takes the average reader 13 hours to read The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Description

This volume, the latest in Oxford's edition of The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, presents Hopkins at his most private and self-considering: there are mundane memoranda about neckties to purchase or letters to write, but also exacting revisions of poems. There are entries of quiet rapture, his attention caught by the unexpected sight of a bluebell or "some delicate flying shafted ashes...between which the sun sent straight bright slenderish panes of silver sunbeams down the slant towards the eye." Paintings, sculptures, and works of literature are stringently assessed, his aesthetic principles freely exercised. There are also nightmares relived; undergraduate "sins" unsparingly recorded; "signs" of heavenly mercy carefully noted; small acts of "kindness" from others, both unexpected and restorative, gratefully acknowledged. Like most diarists, Hopkins was committed to life-writing practices not simply to itemize his daily activities, but to explore the possibilities of textual "selving." The space of the page was the opportunity, incitement, and necessity of reporting what had been seen, what had been felt, what had been feared, in order both to memorialize the experiences and to make possible subsequent re-readings. Thus, the diaries and notebooks are a summary of the present and an investment in-even a prediction of-future responses. The entries extend from September 1863, during his second term at Oxford, until February 1875, while studying theology as a Jesuit in his beloved Wales, and from February 1884 until July 1885, while Hopkins was living at a "third remove" in Dublin, Ireland as a Classics Professor at University College and Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland.

How long is The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins?

The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins by Gerard Manley Hopkins is 780 pages long, and a total of 195,000 words.

This makes it 263% the length of the average book. It also has 238% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 17 hours and 45 minutes to read The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins aloud.

What Reading Level is The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins?

The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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