How Long to Read The Heart of Peace

How Long Does it Take to Read The Heart of Peace?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 29 minutes to read The Heart of Peace by Laurence Housman

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

Description

Mr. Housman is widely known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of England's most distinguished men of letters for his work as a playwright, as a novelist, and as a writer for children, and now in this present volume he devotes himself to poetry. -The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer, Volume 51 [1919] Laurence Housman is a literary artist who, in whatever field he chooses to enter, may be counted on to produce work of beauty and power, if not always of convincing sincerity, and while the present volume is scarcely one of his best it is a notable addition to the year's poetic output. It contains his usual variety of love poems and religious poems-both more or less mystical in their imagery-dramatic lyrics and lyrics of that exquisite lightness and charm which, coupled with the prescience of death, Mr. Housman has made peculiarly his own. Eheu, Fugaces, the lines to the little short-lived seventeenth century Princess Mary, are an example of this very Housmanesque note, and at the other extreme, perhaps equally characteristic, is the colloquial reveries upon Old Swanage, huddled "like a gray cat under the hill." It is amusing to see on the title-page of this book "by the author of An Englishwoman's Love Letters." It might equally well have read, "by the author of Bethlehem" - or of Prunella. For one of the most striking and persistent qualities of this poet-dramatist-novelist-publicist-and fairy-tale-teller is the quality of imaginative versatility. Truly, in his time he has played many parts-and played them well! -Catholic World, Volume 109 [1919]

How long is The Heart of Peace?

The Heart of Peace by Laurence Housman is 146 pages long, and a total of 37,376 words.

This makes it 49% the length of the average book. It also has 46% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Heart of Peace Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 24 minutes to read The Heart of Peace aloud.

What Reading Level is The Heart of Peace?

The Heart of Peace 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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