How Long to Read The Place of Poetry

How Long Does it Take to Read The Place of Poetry?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 5 minutes to read The Place of Poetry by Christopher Clausen

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

Description

Since the end of the eighteenth century, Christopher Clausen asserts, poetry has steadily declined in cultural status in the English-speaking world, yielding its former place as a bearer of truth to the advancing sciences. As the position of poetry was more and more threatened, its defenders made ever higher claims for its importance, even maintaining for a time that it would take the place of religion. But, though the Romantics brought about a sustained revival of serious poetry for a broad audience, the audience began to dwindle toward the end of the nineteenth century, and the decline accelerated as the twentieth century advanced. Though some of the cultural changes responsible for this retreat were beyond the control of poets—"a society in which many people find their chief security and sense of meaning through the possession of certain objects will produce great advertising, not great poetry"—Clausen finds in this situation evidence of an abdication among artists. Because modernist poets and their successors abandoned some indispensable principles, he believes, serious contemporary poetry now has virtually no audience outside of English departments. Yet the need for poetry "is not less in an era like ours," and "the opportunities that the end of the twentieth century offers to poetry will not become fully apparent unless and until poets take advantage of them."

How long is The Place of Poetry?

The Place of Poetry by Christopher Clausen is 183 pages long, and a total of 46,299 words.

This makes it 62% the length of the average book. It also has 57% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Place of Poetry Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 13 minutes to read The Place of Poetry aloud.

What Reading Level is The Place of Poetry?

The Place of Poetry is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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