How Long to Read The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs

How Long Does it Take to Read The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 8 minutes to read The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs by Geoffrey Grigson

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

Description

Triumphant Demons stand, and Angels start, To see the abysses of the human heart. -- Landor English poetry is supposed to be short in epigrams. But here there is a choice of more than 700 epigrams and epitaphs (which are epigrams of a special kind) from the sixteenth century to our time, familiar, unfamiliar, and even unknown. This ancient art of witty and satirical and also tender compression - an art as old as Plato and as young as the youngest living poet - has found its English masters in Herrick, Prior, Pope, Blake, Burns, Walter Savage Landor, Patmore and in twentieth-century masters Belloc and Robert Graves, all poets of strong liking or disliking. But poet after poet, major and minor and anon, has hated, loved, laughed, ridiculed, in couplets and quatrains, taking his cue from the great Latin epigrammatist Martial, from the Latin epigrammatists of the Renaissance (in Elizabethan times every Winchester schoolboy was expecting to be able to write a neat Latin epigram) or from the Greek Anthology of from his own English (and French) predecessors. Here lie the bones of Elizabeth Charlotte, That was born a virgin and died a harlot. She was aye a virgin at seventeen, An extraordinary thing for Aberdeen. -- Anon He served his God so faithfully and well That now he sees him face to face, in hell. -- Belloc

How long is The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs?

The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs by Geoffrey Grigson is 304 pages long, and a total of 77,216 words.

This makes it 103% the length of the average book. It also has 94% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 1 minute to read The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs aloud.

What Reading Level is The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs?

The Faber Book of Epigrams and Epitaphs 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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