How Long to Read The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb

How Long Does it Take to Read The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb by Stanley Plumly

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

Description

A window onto the lives of the Romantic poets through the re-creation of one legendary night in 1817. The author of the highly acclaimed Posthumous Keats, praised as “full of . . . those fleeting moments we call genius” (Washington Post), now provides a window into the lives of Keats and his contemporaries in this brilliant new work. On December 28, 1817, the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon hosted what he referred to in his diaries and autobiography as the “immortal dinner.” He wanted to introduce his young friend John Keats to the great William Wordsworth and to celebrate with his friends his most important historical painting thus far, “Christ’s Entry into Jerusalem,” in which Keats, Wordsworth, and Charles Lamb (also a guest at the party) appeared. After thoughtful and entertaining discussions of poetry and art and their relation to Enlightenment science, the party evolved into a lively, raucous evening. This legendary event would prove to be a highlight in the lives of these immortals. A beautiful and profound work of extraordinary brilliance, The Immortal Evening regards the dinner as a lens through which to understand the lives and work of these legendary artists and to contemplate the immortality of genius. Winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism

How long is The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb?

The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb by Stanley Plumly is 336 pages long, and a total of 86,016 words.

This makes it 113% the length of the average book. It also has 105% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 50 minutes to read The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb aloud.

What Reading Level is The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb?

The Immortal Evening: A Legendary Dinner with Keats, Wordsworth, and Lamb 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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