How Long to Read The Endless Fountain

How Long Does it Take to Read The Endless Fountain?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 24 minutes to read The Endless Fountain by Mark Morford

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

Description

The "endless fountain of immortal drink" that in John Keats's "Endymion" is the metaphor for the inexhaustible flow of inspiration provided to Western culture by the learning and art of classical antiquity, has supplied the title for this impressive collection of original essays, which set out to explore the vicissitudes that have marked the troubled history of the classical humanities during the nearly two thousand years in which they have alternately languished in torpid decline or enjoyed a spirited renaissance. The approach of the five distinguished contributors to the volume has inevitably been to some extent eclectic in that it concentrates on but three periods in a long history-namely, the fourth, eighteenth, and twentieth centuries-which represent major episodes and critical stages in the transmission of the classical tradition. In each has been discovered the pertinence of the classics to the peculiarities of circumstance that have shaped the singular events and novel developments that have characterized each age, as well as to the dilemmas that these in turn have posed. Each essayist argues convincingly for the place occupied by the classics as an essential component of humanistic studies, and each demonstrates, in the affirmations that underlie his work, those continuities that are the substance of a tradition that is once again threatened. The authors and their topics are: "The Classics and the New Humanism," by Charles L. Babcock; "Classicism, Christianity, and Humanism," by William F. McDonald; "Christian Humanism in the Fourth Century: Saint Jerome," by David F. Heimann; "Goethe's "Iphigenia in Tauris: " A Modern Use of a Greek Dramatic Theme," by Oskar Seidlin; and "Classical Latin Poetry: An Art for Our Time," by Harry C. Rutledge. The Epilogue is by Kenneth M. Abbott. Mark Morford is professor of classics and chairman of the Department of Classics at the Ohio State University.

How long is The Endless Fountain?

The Endless Fountain by Mark Morford is 198 pages long, and a total of 51,084 words.

This makes it 67% the length of the average book. It also has 62% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Endless Fountain Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 39 minutes to read The Endless Fountain aloud.

What Reading Level is The Endless Fountain?

The Endless Fountain is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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