How Long to Read The Penguin Book of Elegy

How Long Does it Take to Read The Penguin Book of Elegy?

It takes the average reader 9 hours and 22 minutes to read The Penguin Book of Elegy by Stephen Regan

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

Description

Elegy is among the world's oldest forms of literature: a continuous poetic tradition which stretches back beyond the time of Virgil and Horace to Ancient Greece, speaking eloquently and movingly of the experience of loss and the yearning for consolation. In perhaps the purest instance of art's fundamental 'impulse to preserve' (Philip Larkin), it gives shape and meaning to memories too painful to contemplate for long, and answers our desire to fix in words what would otherwise slip our grasp. In The Penguin Book of Elegy, Andrew Motion and Stephen Regan trace the history of this tradition, selecting the best and most significant poems and poets from the Classical roots of elegy, and from its Renaissance revival down to the present day. They show how this remarkably resilient and versatile form has continued to adapt itself even as society and religious belief have shifted around it, with striking achievements in the work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century poets as different as Marianne Moore, Dylan Thomas, Denise Riley and Gwendolyn Brooks. The result is the only comprehensive anthology of its kind now available in the English language. The Penguin Book of Elegy is itself a work of preservation - and a profound and moving catalogue of the fundamentally human urges to remember and honour the dead, and give comfort to those who survive them.

How long is The Penguin Book of Elegy?

The Penguin Book of Elegy by Stephen Regan is 547 pages long, and a total of 140,579 words.

This makes it 185% the length of the average book. It also has 172% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Penguin Book of Elegy Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 12 hours and 48 minutes to read The Penguin Book of Elegy aloud.

What Reading Level is The Penguin Book of Elegy?

The Penguin Book of Elegy 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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Where Can I Buy The Penguin Book of Elegy?

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