How Long to Read The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication

How Long Does it Take to Read The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 32 minutes to read The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication by William Douglas O'Connor

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

Description

Walt Whitman worked at three government jobs in his time in Washington. In 1865, he was fired as a clerk in the Bureau of Indian Affairs by Secretary of the Interior James Harlan, who found Leaves of Grass to be indecent. Whitman's great friend William Douglas O'Connor responded twofold. He arranged for a new job for Whitman in the Attorney General's Office, and he published The Good Gray Poet: A Vindication. The pamphlet defended the poet, put a positive spin on his notoriety, and successfully created a whole new benevolent image for Whitman.Walt Whitman met William Douglas O'Connor in 1860 at the short-lived firm of Thayer and Eldridge, which that year published Whitman's third edition of Leaves of Grass and O'Connor's only novel, Harrington: A Story of True Love. Two years later their paths crossed again when Whitman traveled to Washington, D.C., to search its military hospitals for his brother George, who had been wounded in the Battle of Fredericksburg. O'Connor welcomed Whitman into his home and quickly became Whitman's friend and an ardent defender of Whitman's poetry. Since their first meeting, O'Connor had turned from his artistic pursuits as a daguerreotypist, poet, and short-story writer, novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor (at the Saturday Evening Post in Philadelphia) to the more steady position of a clerk in the Treasury Department.

How long is The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication?

The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication by William Douglas O'Connor is 92 pages long, and a total of 23,184 words.

This makes it 31% the length of the average book. It also has 28% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 6 minutes to read The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication aloud.

What Reading Level is The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication?

The Good Gray Poet. A Vindication is suitable for students ages 10 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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